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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Alexandra Drew

Good morning.

My grandad didn鈥檛 earn any medals or achieve much in the way of certificates or qualifications. But he was a great man in my eyes. He worked the bars of many a Weston Super Mare hotel, had great banter with the guests, occasionally stepping out from behind the bar to dance them round the floor under the glittering disco ball for a turn or two, and making us all laugh by wearing his enormous red clown shoes and curly wig to match.

Grandad was the one who wordlessly collected me and take me home when I got into mischief, who would press 拢5 pound notes into my hand with that special secret grandparent handshake, who gave me a lifelong taste for a certain purple chocolate brand, and who was endlessly and vocally proud of me, not matter what I did.

You鈥檒l have your own treasured memories of grandparents or special older relatives in your life, but those are just some of mine.

Many grandparents fulfil an important role in their families 鈥� making children laugh, looking after them, praying for them, and sometimes supporting their families financially too.

In the Bible, we can read about the important role of grandparents for future generations and that 鈥済randchildren are the crown of the aged鈥�.

So today I give thanks for grandparents and other older people whose kindness has been a blessing to us. Help us to remember them and replicate the love they showed us in our encounters with young people. Help us to be a blessing to grandparents and older people who now need our kindness and love. And comfort us in our sadness over those who are no longer with us.

Amen.

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