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low winter sun

If choral music could have a physical presence, this is what it might be like.

Low winter sun is the St Matthew Passion of weather. Light music, you could say. The son of God. The sun of God. It works both ways.

On such mornings it is as if God Himself were peeping over the edge of the world, pouring in His presence. The golden tide that sweeps across the land is a blessing that stops even the most work-obsessed among us. Who hasn't glanced from a train window and been momentarily transfixed by the beauty – by the way the world has been made new? That barn, that farm, that hedge even, seem to have been given a mystical presence by the sun: something in the way they sit this morning seems different, special.

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