Just 20 minutes before the incident at Big Church Festival, I was sharing a brand-new Pause for Thought that I’ll be doing on BBC breakfast next week, exploring the themes of “empty walls”, grief, disappointment and loss at Dai’s spoken word venue Myself and the Moses Brothers ended the piece by singing “It Is Well.” Those words echoed around that venue with such faith. We had no idea that just 20 minutes later, only a few metres or so from the stage, a freak accident would happen — and lives would be changed forever. I’m sitting in disbelief and grief, trying to process the questions that have no easy answers so much that’s going on in the world right now. And yet, through the tears, I find myself trying to raise a quiet “It is well.” Not because everything is well. It isn’t. But because I believe God is still there in the middle of the questions. In the heartbreak. In the silence. In the moments when we don’t understand. Sometimes faith isn’t a triumphant song — sometimes it’s simply holding onto God when you can barely hold onto anything else. So I’m praying for everyone affected, for those carrying unimaginable grief, and for the hope that somehow, even in the darkest moments, God’s light will keep breaking through. ‘It is well with my soul’. 🤍 even if we can only muster it as a whisper right now Oh that this abiding ache of grieving hearts for so much in the world right now, would be daily orientated toward the approaching moments of inevitable restoration- both in the now and most certainly in the not yet. @mosesbros @bigchurchfest