In the Chapel of St Nicholas in the York church of Holy Trinity is a peculiar, gold-coloured installation of art work: Deus Vorax (2014). It is made out of a mixture of fibreglass, gilding and concrete. The artist’s spiel, which accompanies it, states:
’Tis my happiness below,
Not to live without the cross,
But the Saviour’s power to know,
Sanctifying every loss.
Trials must and will befall;
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all,
This is happiness to me.
For a second December running, I find myself in the Yorkshire Dales addressing fifty teenagers on a New Year Christian camp. Last year, I spoke on some mountains of scripture; this year, rather unimaginatively, I shall talk about some Old Testament valleys: Hinnom, Elah, Dry Bones and Baca.
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