Admiration

We’re watching the news – or lack of news – from Portugal. I find myself completely full of admiration for Gerry and Kate McCann. They bring to bear a whole range of resources spiritual and emotional – they are rational, balanced, hopeful and spiritually rooted. They have an extraordinary support network of extended family and friends. Chasms of despair and hopelessness beckon invitingly all around them – a crisis with a child is a huge stress in a marriage. But they are doing a wonderful job of remaining focused on the matter in hand – which is keeping the search for their daughter in the world headlines.