'The Lost Chord'

By the immortal Arthur Sullivan!

Sullivan actually wrote 'The Lost Chord' on the death of his brother. The real reason I chose it for this evening is that this evening I received some very sobering news from my mother about her health. It's nothing to panic about, but it is going to be mean quite a lot of difficulty over the next few months.

I suppose it might seem vain to ask my readers to pray for my mother - especially given that I don't want to say what her real name is.

On the other hand the Grace of God is the one commodity we can have in this world that we can know will never be wasted. As the great English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson puts it, 'More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.'

UPDATE: According to this vid's YouTube label this is actually Peter Auty - the original boy who sang the "Walking in the Air" song from The Snowman (i.e. before Aled Jones, who just happened to scrub up slightly better, really made it his own and the never looked back).