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PRAYERS FOR LONDON - Keith Ireland (8th Jul 2005 - 20:10:22) At 4.30pm this Sunday afternoon there are prayers for London. The venue - not a church - is Liphook Railway station. Liphook Christians, representing 5 local churches are arranging this event. You don't have to be religious. You may be a commuter who travels to London each day and now has to face the Underground journey with some uncertainty. I work in Basingstoke so I don't know what it must be like to do that journey every day. But I will be there. My son Alex C works in a building next to Aldgate station, but he took the morning off to do work in his Ealing flat. He might have been in one of the Tube trains...that thought makes me shudder. I have something to be thankful for. If this note gets posted after Sunday and you are a commuter, then I hope that you will note that you have been prayed over - whatever that means to you. At least / at last the 5 local churches are pulling together. Keith

Re: PRAYERS FOR LONDON - Alex Cameron (9th Jul 2005 - 00:21:20) Very thoughtful gesture Pa - i speak for quite a few people when i say we're a little shaken up in the smoke. We visited the site of the bus today (Russell Sq) in simple disbelief. Police are absolutely everywhere - at the stations, on the platforms, and on the trains. I've heard sirens all day and seen streets closed down. We deliberately went out just to show we weren't intimidated - and i've never felt resolve like that or see it in others so clearly. I was due to be in Brick Lane around 9am for a meeting on the Thursday, which meant i could have been in either the Edgware Road or Aldgate blasts as i go through Paddington - i was incredibly lucky as i rescheduled at short notice and held another meeting in Ealing Broadway. We watched it unfold through a GPRS card on my colleague's laptop. The sheer amount of texts, phone calls and emails i got asking if i was OK brought the whole thing home to me, but in all honesty i'm still getting my head around it - there are still people missing. Colleagues of mine from other companies were caught up in it - in fact a friend's wife was evacuated out of King's Cross only to find herself 50ft from the blast in Taverstock hill on the bus when it happened. She described seeing blood on the walls and body parts in the road. But incredibly, the office in Aldgate is 20ft away from the tube, and on the morning the explosion happened, 1500 employees were all accounted for, all unscathed, despite it being peak commuter time at 8.50am. Not miraculous, but surely improbable. The grief of the families who lost their loved ones is something i can't even imagine, but what i have observed is that i've personally had the chance to see both the best and the worst of human nature. And as H.G. Wells observed, nothing that happens in this world is in vain. I for one will say a prayer with you all if i get back in time on Sunday afternoon.

Re: PRAYERS FOR LONDON - Sooze (13th Jul 2005 - 10:17:30) I am Alex C's mother and I praise God that Alex was not on the Underground last Thursday morning. I always try to say prayers for the safety of my family each morning, when I wake up, and I know that my prayer was answered last week and I am so very thankful for that. I too worked and lived in London during the 70's and remember all the bomb scares and problems in the capital. Please pray for this nation and for world peace.

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