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It can be all too easy to be completely wrapped up in everything that is going on around us and in the world.

For many of us in central London, August is as close as we get to a collective break in work.

So I’m not quite out the door yet.

That ‘one small step for a man’ is a moving memory for me having got up in the dead of night as a small boy and been allowed to watch the drama live on a very small black and white TV in my parents’ bedroom.

On warm summer mornings, it is a joy to arrive at work by walking up to St Martin’s from Charing Cross Station.

I wonder if anyone has ever said something that made you look at your life in a completely different way?

Today is Gustav Mahler’s birthday. The Mahler was born six years after Sigmund Freud and three years before Edvard Munch.

The Reading Theology group at St Martin’s has been studying a wonderful book by Dr Kathryn Mannix, a palliative care specialist, called ‘With the End in Mind’.

I want to share with you a letter I received last week.