The Lightfoot Lane Blog

Lindra Drury went to be with her God and Father on Tuesday 2nd October 2007 at 1:35pm.

A funeral will be held on Monday 8th October for family only.

A family celebration service will be held at 5.30pm on Monday 8th October at Fulwood Free Methodist Church. This will be a 45 min service followed by tea, please bring children and food.

There will be no sermon, Pastor Andrew will be doing a children story about resurrections.

It would be great to have as many children there as possible so that Ben, Olivia, Esther and Tim are not there on their own.

Sometimes being a Pastor is a curious privilege. When you respond to God’s call to ministry, you don’t think, “Great, I get to visit the sick and the dying, to go into hospitals and hospices and then take funerals.” But you do! It is a vital part of your call and ministry and an amazing privilege to be allowed into family circles in tough times and in grief times.

I have had a couple of deeply wonderful days visiting Linda and Chris in the hospice. Sometimes, just to sit quiet by Linda’s bedside and pray in silence, sometimes to chat. Chris and I talked in the Hospice chapel last night. We sat and cried and spoke about the future. There is a quiet, deep dignity about him and Linda at present. I know this is of God.

Yesterday morning, the kids were in church - it’s a place where they are happy. It gave Chris and Linda space to be together, to say “I love you,” to each other and even talk about a song Linda wants if we should need to celebrate her life at a funeral, but I guess you’ll already know the song…”though there’s pain in the offering, blessed be the Name of the Lord!”