Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

  Audio recording here .  Good morning and welcome to Thought for the Day. It was a big shock to learn on Friday evening that Kate, the Princess of Wales has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. And this only a few weeks after King Charles was having cancer treatment. It’s deeply upsetting. I guess there’s a part of us that looks at the royals and thinks that they live in a kind of fairytale story where life is always good and always has a happy ending. But it’s not. We’ve seen from the loss of the Queen and Prince Philip, difficulties between Harry and his family, and of course the tragic death of the former Princess of Wales, Diana, that no family is immune from suffering. The good news is that it seems her surgery was successful and the treatment is preventative, which sounds like there is every hope that she will make a full recovery. But Kate’s openness and honesty will have done a great deal to help others who are facing similar things. And perhaps...

  Click here for Audio.  I just called to say I love you/ Somebody to love you/ When a man loves a woman/ Can’t buy me love/ Love Shack/ Love in an elevator/ Can’t help falling in love/ Got a whole lotta love/ Sunshine of your love/ All you need is love/ It’s the theme of a thousand songs, it’s the name of 29 albums, it’s the title of 20 films, it’s the name of 12 places in the US (according to Wikipedia), it will be the subject of a thousand conversations today, there’s even a crater on the moon named after it. I’m talking about love. We talk about falling in love, staying in love, being in love, falling out of love. We love to love and long to be loved. But what is love? Do we actually know what it is? For some Love is spelled L U S T . LUST. As one song puts it “let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel”. Well we won’t go into details there as this is a family show, but surely there’s more to love than lust. How many people have thought they found love, when a...