good morning and welcome to the deanery at canterbury cathedral on this monday the 14th of february welcome wherever you are in the world it's sint valentine's day and that's become a really popular saints day out in the world itself and uh it's a commemoration of a roman martyr in the third century but very little is known about him and if you try to find out exactly why his name is associated with all the wonderful red hearts and roses and everything else which the shops are full of at the moment for today then the nicest story that i've read but i don't know how much credence to face in it is that when he was in prison uh the jailer's daughter fell in love with him and would write to my valentine and uh smuggle the letters in um well uh if that's true then it does give a certain amount of of uh what should we say understanding to the fact that valentine in that kind of circumstance must have felt good to be known and loved by someone there it's become associated mostly with romantic love but also the part that love and loyalty and faithfulness and sacrificial companionship play in human life it's become as i said a commercial business in a big sense but at its heart it's what it always has been and what it always was the human ability to say i love you to someone and perhaps hear it said back in what can be a lonely and confusing world so we give thanks for this day with all its signs and symbols and it's messages of the heart and we've chosen to come here to the heart of the house into the kitchen today the heart of our own home here and that we find and you will find too is very often the heart of everyone's own home but it's not the formal room that most people show you to first it's not the tidy room it's actually the room where the family gives hospitality out in the other rooms maybe but if i think of visiting and i can think of a a family nearby that i went to see on a an occasion and it was a funeral visit and you go through the door and you're shown into the drawing room and i think on about the third visit then the mother of the family said oh let's just go into the kitchen uh it's where we all live and most of the family business gets done there and from that moment onwards we've never been anywhere else and that kind of thing is true of all kitchens our kitchen is here right in the middle of the house and from it you lead off into a multitude of different rooms of of different functions and so if i go round there's a a little door going up the stairs into a storeroom and down the stairs into the the laundry room and beyond to the boiler room and it's very necessary to know your way around the boiler room when the boiler has had its pilot blown out on a windy morning and you come down the house is freezing cold you go down into the boiler room and fix what's going on you've got to know how to treat this ancient boiler here and then at the same time we go that way into the pet room where we've been and on through the french windows into the garden and on this direction we're going into the morning room where we were um celebrating uh chinese new year in front of the fire if you remember so all these rooms lead off the this particular kitchen there's a bigger place for cooking in great measure when we're entertaining but this is the family home where we cook and uh i've a great memory of giving entertainment here very informal entertainment to two policemen on the day that uh her majesty and prince philip came to to uh um unveil the statues and we sat around the table here and gave them boiled eggs and chatted and really got to know about their lives because they'd spent the whole night here keeping the place secure for uh her majesty and prince philip to have lunch the next day but we actually had them into here now fletcher had been up all night getting ready for the occasion and at the same time the this was quite cluttered as every kitchen gets but there was no doubt that this was the living heart of our home and it's probably exactly the same for you we'll think a bit more about that as we go on through our reflection but let's keep that image of the heart in human life and love and companionship and also the heart at the center of any activity and what the kitchen is i remember rowan williams once saying to me about the cathedral the cathedral is mother's kitchen canterbury cathedral is mother's kitchen for the anglican communion where the family can have its scraps and rows and everything else but no one can say she's not your mother the kitchen belongs to all and we like to think that about this kitchen where all creative activity happens so let's uh say our prayers on this very special day of saint valentine when so many are remembering and trying to give symbols to one another of the way in which they find affection with each other and creative and loving companionship oh lord open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise your faithful servants bless you they make known the glory of your kingdom blessed are you sovereign god ruler and judge of all do you be praise and glory forever in the darkness of this age that is passing away may the light of your presence which the saints enjoy surround our steps as we journey on may we reflect your glory this day and so be made ready to see your face in the heavenly city when night shall be no more blessed be god father son and holy spirit blessed be god forever the night has passed and the day lies open before us let us pray with one heart and mind as we rejoice in the gift of this new day so may the light of your presence o god set our hearts on fire with love for you now and forever amen our psalm this morning is psalm 71 and we will link that with the story of david because we're now back to our story in one samuel and chapter 20 which we've read as you know in three parts on uh friday and saturday and then yesterday being sunday had a different lesson but now we're back to part three of that story and you will remember that in that story david is desolate and alone and frightened and has only the loyalty of jonathan to rely on and this psalm and let's think again how david's name almost undergirds the psalms not only the shepherd king but the one who played the liar and sang and uh was given the sort of symbolic ownership of the book of psalms so here's psalm 71 in you o lord do i seek refuge let me never be put to shame in your righteousness deliver me and set me free incline your ear to me and save me be for me a stronghold to which i may ever resort send out to save me for you are my rock and my fortress deliver me my god from the hand of the wicked from the grasp of the evil doer and the oppressor for you are my hope o lord god my confidence even from my youth upon you have i leaned from my birth when you drew me from my mother's womb my praise shall be always of you i have become important to many but you are my refuge and my strengths let my mouth be full of your praise and your glory all the day long and do not cast me away in the time of old age forsake me not when my strength fails for my enemies are talking against me and those who lie and wait for my life take counsel together they say god has forsaken him pursue him and take him because there is none to deliver him oh god be not far from me come quickly to help me o my god let those who are against me be put to shame and disgrace let those who seek to do me evil be covered with scorn and reproach but as for me i will hope continually and will praise you more and more my mouth shall tell of your righteousness and salvation all the day long for i know no end of the telling i will begin with the mighty works of the lord god i will recall your righteousness yours alone o god you have taught me since i was young and to this day i tell of your wonderful works forsake me not oh god when i am old and gray-headed till i make known your deeds to the next generation and your power to all that are to come your righteousness oh god reaches to the heavens in the great things you have done who is like you oh god what troubles and adversities you have shown me and yet you will turn and refresh me and bring me from the deep of the earth again increase my honor turn again and comfort me therefore i will praise you upon the harp for your faithfulness oh my god i will sing to you with the liar oh holy one of israel my lips will sing out as i play to you and so will my soul which you have redeemed my tongue also will tell of your righteousness all the day long for they shall be shamed and disgraced who sought to do me evil welcome one can well think of david in that condition and later on in periods of his life when his son absalom has raised a revolution against him and david is forced to flee he must have been saying prayers just like this and we shall join him now in chapter 20 of the first book of samuel and this is what i would call part three and it's starting at verse 35. [Music] remember that jonathan has said in three days i will return and he has gone back to the city to eat with the king his father at the new moon and on the first night of eating saul takes no real notice of the absence of david his seat is empty beside saul had sat the captain of his guard abner jonathan sitting opposite david's seat empty and the second night then shall we say the fat is in the fire where is david you remember the anger that we saw on saturday morning with that lesson in chapter 20 and the rage of saul that david has gone for he seeks to kill him and the rage is turned on to jonathan and jonathan rises from the table refuses to eat and leaves and the next morning the third day as we've said he goes out to keep his promise to david that he'll take an attendant with him and shoot arrows and if he shouts to the boy the arrows are beyond you then there's danger and david must flee so here is this story in the morning jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with david and took with him a little boy and he said to his boy run and find the arrows that i shoot as the boy ran jonathan shot an arrow beyond him and when the boy came to the place of the arrow that jonathan had shot jonathan called after the boy and said is not the arrow beyond you and jonathan called after the boy hurry be quick do not stay so jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master but the boy knew nothing only jonathan and david knew the matter and jonathan gave his weapons to his boy and said to him go and carry them back to the city and as soon as the boy had gone david rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times and david and jonathan kissed one another and wept with one another david weeping the most then jonathan said to david go in peace because we have sworn both of us in the name of the lord saying the lord shall be between me and you and between my offspring and your offspring forever and david rose and departed and jonathan went into the city they never meet again and this tale as we've said from the beginning will end in tragedy but for today let us concentrate our minds and our hearts on the loyalty and companionship and love between the two of them just the two of them in what is now for both of them after jonathan has had the spear thrown at him as well by his father what is for both of them a dangerous and hostile world and jonathan must have found that going out to give david that news was heart-rending he had so long hello he had so longed to give david good news of his father but not david has been right all along saul seeks the life of david for he has grown bitterly jealous of david's first of all his relationship with jonathan but also his prowess in all kinds of of military activity and david now knows that the king who has all the power is going to kill him and at that point he simply has had to rely on jonathan but jonathan is now saying i can't do any more to protect you from my father you are absolutely right he seeks your life and so you must flee and then there is this touching scene of unconditional love and loyalty between the two of them but jonathan must go back to his duties at the palace as the heir to the throne and live out the dangers of that with his father king saul and david must flee knowing himself to be alone in a kingdom where the king's hand is set against him as i said they will never meet again love shows itself in tears as well as in laughter and we know that only too well sometimes joy can show itself in tears for it's the strongest of the human emotion and to burst into tears can happen when people are overwhelmed with joy but at the same time this is deep grief for david and jonathan have that almost prophetic sense jonathan certainly that this is a parting and the love they bear for one another will still be there but the kind of contacts that they have had are over and there's no virtual contact in those days and for jonathan sending any message to david will endanger david's life and also endanger his own life with his father king saul the words are all jonathan's when they finish weeping and realize this is passing it's jonathan who says we have sworn a covenant between you and me forever between your offspring and my offspring forever and you remember how jonathan had that glimmer of prophecy when he spoke earlier on in chapter 20 to david about what he felt was in store for david in terms of of power and perhaps even had a a glimmer that david would take over the kingdom and in that he says be kind to me and my house when that happens i don't think david for a moment was realizing what jonathan was saying but there is that glimmer of prophecy and the figure of of samuel the representative of prophecy comes back into our mind and it's it's samuel of course who says when he is choosing david and the father jesse and all david's brothers are surprised humanity looks on the outward appearance the lord looks on the heart we'll come back very much to that thought at the the end of our reflection today [Music] so let's think of how valentine's day plays itself out in uh everything is going on around us outside in the city today everyone will know it's in valentine's day and if somebody has woken up and had forgotten yesterday and has no token to give the other one there'd probably be a certain amount of disgruntlement in their uh relationship just for a bit and some recompense will have to be made up a bit later in the day but people are trying to find a creative way to say those words whatever love means in the context of their relationship and it can mean a multitude of things as we shall see in a moment but they're trying to find imaginative and creative ways of saying that it's not just going and buying an old box of chocolates it's actually thinking what would make that person know the value i place on them intuitively know that this sign has been given in a really special way which then becomes heart warming and the heart again just as we're in the kitchen the heart of the house with all its disturbances but all its creativity and i think back again to the mother of the family who said oh let's go into the kitchen it's where the family normally lives its life and and every other visit i've paid we've not really been to another place and it seems the right place to be and certainly here all kinds of things go on here and it's busy times when the place is absolute chaos it's the last place it's almost so tidiness starts out there because we're receiving guests and then recedes and recedes into the kitchen and then somehow almost when people are knocking at the door the last bits that are being tidally covered up or or made to look half decent is the kitchen where all this has gone on because you want a house which is uh truman said fair as the the elena fargen poem people look east for love the guest is on the way and that becomes our most wonderful thing so we're here in in this kitchen but we think of so many ways in which hospitality can then be shared and if one goes into christ's words of farewell to his own disciples whom he loves and they are sitting around the supper table in the upper room with the smell of cooking and hospitality all around them and it's there as you know as a sign of his love for them that he washes their feet and so he were the servant who would do that and insists that they must carry out that same service to all those that they are going to bring the christ light to but then he gives them the new commandment love one another as i have loved you and by that all will know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another the epistles of st john are full of that concept of love god is love says uh um cintron in his abyssal and those who fell in love joining god all of these images of the way in which a a self-sacrificing offering heart and soul to another can be encouraging life building and that was the message that christ gave to his church a much much much wider concept than the the mostly romantic love which is shown on on some valentine's day but not only that there are those who are actually just offering to one another um gifts and signs of of loving companionship and self-giving sacrifice in in what they are doing in all kinds of relationships today the words of forgiveness on the lakeside are just there for peter simon son of jonas do you love me and then peter answering lord you know i love you and then the commission given there are words of love but there was a forgiveness and new beginnings for peter on the left side but there are also words of farewell and so often these things aren't linked together and tinged in that way i'm going to come back to something that we were doing yesterday which is talking i've mentioned her name already this morning talking about elena fargen and how she wrote that lovely hymn post first world war and so many at that time were feeling really um that this this awful tragedy had ruined their life and yet she was writing such lovely things morning has broken like the first morning all of that we saw yesterday and in her first verse of the uh people lookies the time is near for at the crowning of the year as we said that could be any day because the gift of the new day always sees god's recreation of the new day and her other hymn but in this one at the crowning of the year make your house fair as you are able trim the hearth and set the table and the last line of that verse love the guest is on the way and it's the kitchen that will be the heart of that hospitality for love the guest had given a sign of the breaking of bread to remember his love for them and the breaking of bread to show our love for him and for one another and i'm not just talking about the breaking of bread at a liturgical communion service a mass eucharist a lord's supper whatever the traditions of the church have chosen to call it i'm talking about any sharing of hospitality together which quite often is in the the muddle of the kitchen and uh the heart of the house as we keep saying this morning sitting here um it's looking fairly tidy because we knew you were coming this morning it's not always like that and at christmas time when uh cakes are being iced and we're going through the preparations for so much hospitality at christmas time very often in the evening on those days leading up to christmas as fletcher works at the the the icing of the cakes or or cooking this or cooking that uh then it's our tradition that i will sit and read sometimes we change round but uh usually i'll sit and read the christmas carol dickens's christmas carol is part of the lead up to christmas and that's sitting in the kitchen surrounded by the smells of hospitality but surrounded by real chaos and everything that really is not um set your house fair as you are able it's a preparation for doing that and in the fam in the family heart of any house then there is that sense of if you're admitted into there then you really are a friend and i find that right across the world i got on the table here that the most marvelous piece of flint and it came from an archaeological dig at lee's court and the thousands of acres of lee's quarter being open to archaeological dig bit by bit in a wonderful way one of the largest archaeological digs that would have happened and kent is a good place for this and we we we thank um phillis our friend of his lady sons for this opportunity to to look into the iron age past for this flint and you're thinking why is it that color this flint would have been used for a very particular purpose and we were told that when it was handed to us by the archaeologists they said in those days it is pre-roman times and going back to a good civilization but with things that hadn't yet been discovered then if you put one of their earthenware or clay pots they were unglazed they would crack with heat if you tried to heat them from below so flints were heated to a very very great heat and the stew or the water that was in the pot were was what was then um put uh up there and the flint baking absolutely baking hotness turned white with the heat uh and they may have been making um herbal teas or or anything at all heating the water up or heating their stews up they would do that by dropping these into the cooking it's a wonderful thought that this would have been used by iron age hands to be cooking as we do now with very very different methods and at the same time sometimes i get all this from the archaeologists they would dig great pits and if it was a whole village having a feast and they would put they would line it with these scalding flints and put the meat there rather like a clam bake which we've um seen happening mostly in new england but all of that covered up then and the meat bakes and then when you open it it's cooked different ways of doing things but also in traveling in other places i've always been really heartened to the depths of my being when i'm invited into the kitchen sometimes in hotter countries when i've been serving in south sudan or even in tanzania you find yourself sitting around the fire outside where the cooking is happening and the places where the people are living and sleeping are around but that is always a real privilege to be invited into the heart of of of the home and you will perhaps tune with that on this day when we try to show one another love with great signs and symbols as christ did to us with the bread and the cup of the new covenant before going on well if one looks at the way in which elena fargen gave us that people look east the time is near and each verse as we saw yesterday ends with love the guest is on the way love the rose is on the way the second one when the first begins furrows be glad the earth receiving the seed which will sprout up in the warmth and flower with the right care and uh so second verse love the rose the third one in love the bird is on the way which this morning made me think when i was seeing that of the dove returning with the olive branch of peace in its beak to noah coming back to the ark for shelter and that olive leaf of course for us is a sign of our lord's loneliness in gethsemane as well all signs and symbols have a multitude of completely different meanings and in that um uh elena fargen went on to love the star is on the way and uh love friendly love the lord is on the way and the word way again has a completely different meaning for the christian church who were called followers of the way much to think about in that but i just wanted to go back to one a book which elena fargen wrote about the four last years of the poet edward thomas's life she and edward thomas and edward thomas's wife helen and the american poet robert frost had a very close companionship in the years for the four years leading up to the first world war when frost was living here and became the closest of friends with edward thomas they would walk together and elena fargo was a member of that quartet and a very very close and loving friend to helen uh thomas's wife and there's a moment when uh in their walks robert frost and edward thomas came in the countryside to a way which led through the woods either that way or that way and they stopped and couldn't make up their mind and from that in august 1915 robert frost when he was back in the states published a poem it's called the road not taken here it is it's just uh three short for four shorts versus two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry i could not travel both and be one traveler long i stood and looked down one as far as i could to where it bent in the undergrowth then took the other just as fair and having perhaps the better claim because it was grassy and wanted wear though as for that the passing there had worn them really about the same and both that morning equally lay in leaves nose step and trodden black now i kept the first for another day yet knowing how whey leads on to way i doubted if i should ever come back i shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence two roads diverged in a wood and i i took the one less traveled by and that's made all the difference now the interesting thing is that this was a turning point in both their lives frosts went back to the states edward thomas decided to join the army at the call of his country at that time and his life ended in 1917 uh on the battlefields of aris in the powder cali robert frost went back home and lived a long and distinguished life until 1963 as a highly respected poet but that poem is one of his best loved ones and helen thomas of course uh edward's wife she lived another 50 years after edward but never married again but one of her closest friends was elena f arjun who would have been a member of that quartet and she constantly would go as love the guest to helen because they'd shared so much that here was someone whose heart was bound to hers in loving companionship and i'm sure that um eleanor fargen was a huge comfort to henry and thomas as they talked in front of the fire that and remembered those years when the roads diverged from robert frost their friend and edward thomas fargen's friend and helen's husband all those things talk about the heart and how it can be given um a a kind of of importance out of all proportion and it's right to do so here's the little prince i'm going to read a little bit of it this morning and you will remember we read all of it when the pandemic was starting and then interviewed our friend uh marisine a lady northbourne because she was the little girl for whom it was written and she loaned us if you remember her lovely paintings which she has which aren't in the book but remember that the little prince if you know the story the little prince who comes from another star is feeling really really homesick and on his planet um he has a rose whom he loves but doesn't know how much he loves until he comes to earth and now begins to miss her and he thinks she is the only rose until suddenly walking in the across our planet he finds a whole garden of roses which all look like his flower and he was overcome with sadness because his flower had told him she was the only one of her kind in all the universe and here were 5 000 of them all looking alike in one single garden and he was going on with his reflection he went on with his reflection i thought that i was rich with a flower that was unique in all the world and all i had was a common rose a common rose and three volcanoes that come up to my knees and one of them perhaps extinct forever that doesn't make me a very great prince and he laid down on the grass and cried it was then that the fox appeared good morning said the fox good morning the little prince responded politely although when he turned around he saw nothing i'm right here the voice said under the apple tree who are you asked the little prince and added you are very pretty to look at i am a fox the fox said come and play with me propose the little prince i'm so unhappy i cannot play with you the fox said i am not tamed ah please excuse me said the little prince but after some thought he added what does that mean tame you do not live here said the fox what is it that you are looking for i'm looking for men said the little prince what does that mean tame men said the fox they have guns and they hunt it is very disturbing they also raise chickens these are their only interest are you looking for chickens no said the little prince i'm looking for friends what does that mean tame it's an act too often neglected said the fox it means to establish ties to establish ties just that said the fox to me you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys and i have no need of you and you on your part have no need of me to you i'm nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes but if you tame me then we shall need each other to me you will be unique in all the world to you i shall be unique in all the world i'm beginning to understand said the little prince there is a flower i think that she has tamed me it is possible said the fox on the earth one sees all sorts of things oh but this is not on the earth said the little prince the fox seemed perplexed and very curious on another planet yes are there hunters on that planet no that's interesting are there chickens no nothing is perfect inside the fox but he came back to his idea my life is very monotonous he said i hunt chickens men hunt me all the chickens are just alike all men are just alike and in consequence i am a little bored but if you tame me it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life i shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground yours will call me like music out of my burrow and then look you'll see the grain fields down yonder i don't eat bread wheat is of no use to me the wheat fields have nothing to say to me and that's sad but you have hair that is the color of gold think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me the grain which is also golden will bring me back the thought of you and i shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat the fox gazed at the little prince for a long time please tame me he said well i want to very much the little prince replied but i haven't much time i have friends to discover and a great many things to understand one only understands the things that one tames said the fox men have no more time to understand anything they buy things already made at the shop but there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship and so men have no friends anymore if you want a friend tame me what must i do to tame you ask the little prince you must be very patient replied the fox first you will sit down at a little distance from me like that in the grass i should look at you out of the corner of my eye and you will say nothing words are the source of misunderstandings but you will sit a little closer to me every day the next day the little prince came back it would have been better to come back at the same hour said the fox if for example you came at four o'clock in the afternoon then at three o'clock i should begin to be happy i shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances at four o'clock i shall already be worrying and jumping about i will show you how happy i am but if you come at just any time i shall never know what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you one must observe the proper rights what's a right ask the little prince there's also our actions too often neglected said the fox they are make they are what make one day different from another one hour from other hours there is a right for example among my hunters every thursday they dance with the village girls so thursday is a wonderful day for me i can take a walk as far as the vineyards but if the hunters danced at just any time every day would be like every other day and i should never have any vacation at all so the little prince tamed the fox and when the hour of his departure drew near ah said the fox i shall cry well it's your own fault said the little prince i never wished you any sort of harm but you wanted me to tame you that is so said the fox but now you're going to cry said the little prince yes that is so said the fox then it's done you no good at all it has done me good said the fox because of the color of the wheat fields and then he added go and look again at the roses you will understand now that yours is unique in all the world and then come back to say goodbye to me and i will make you the present of a secret the little prince went away to look again at the roses you're not at all like my rose he said as yet you are nothing no one has tamed you and you have tamed no one you are like my fox when i first knew him he was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes but i've made him my friend and now he's unique in all the world and the roses were very much embarrassed you are beautiful but you are empty he went on one could not die for you to be sure an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you the rose that belongs to me but in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses because it is she that i have watered because it is she that i have put under the glass globe because it is she that i have sheltered behind the screen because it is for her that i have killed the caterpillars except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies because it is she that i have listened to when she grumbled or boasted or even sometimes when she said nothing because she is my rose and he went back to meet the fox goodbye he said goodbye said the fox now here is my secret it's a very simple secret it is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye what is essential is invisible to the eye the little prince repeated said that he will be sure to remember it is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important it is the time i have wasted for my rose said the little prince so that he will be sure to remember men have forgotten this truth said the fox you must not forget it you become responsible forever for what you have tamed you are responsible for your rose [Music] i am responsible for my rose the little prince repeated so that he would be sure to remember now leo you're going to let me go because it's very nice to be affectionate but teeth aren't exactly the way we show it so we come back to that sense of the heart of the house here in the kitchen in all the maelstrom of activity of the family the heart of the home and at the same time to eleanor fargen's last sentence in that lovely poem people look east love the lord is on the way love the guest in the first verse love the lord is on the way and we now say our prayers on this morning of valentine's day in the heart of our home the kitchen [Music] we're praying this morning across the world for the diocese of karnataka south in the united church of south india and we're praying for justin our archbishop for rose bishop of dover for emma bishop at lambeth and today for the parish of holy trinity ramsgate and for paul blanche in his ministry there and for the life of that parish we pray also for all those who give us loving and self-giving companionship and those to whom we would give it also here is the collect for today bring your own prayers and intentions we pray this together almighty god you alone can bring order to the unruly wills and passions of sinful humanity give your people grace so to love what you command and to desire what you promise that among the many changes of this world our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found through jesus christ our lord amen so we say together the prayer our lord taught us our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever amen moment of reflection on this valentine's day [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] the peace of god which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of god and of his son jesus christ our lord and the blessing of god almighty the father the son and the holy spirit be upon you upon those whom you love and those whom you would pray for today and always are men so from the heart of our home and from our own hearts we wish you a happy valentine's day and the grace within your homes and lives and relationship to receive love the guest and perceive him to be love the lord who became fresh for us and left us so many signs and activities to remind us of that grace day by day in our own humanity and in our hearts where is the true seat of recognition so leo i think it's probably time for you to have breakfast and you've been really really good this morning so happy to go good you're by an iron age flint you