This weekend, you might possibly already be aware, sees the Coronation of King Charles III.
The global viewing figures will be immense.
There will be street parties and community events and the opportunity to help out in your neighbourhood.
It will be one of those weekends where you will always remember where you were and who you were with.
The coronation invites conversation around vocation, of becoming, of call. King Charles has been the heir to the throne since he was at Infant School – for 70 years.
It is only now, with the death of his Mother, that he has the chance to inhabit and fulfil the role he was born to take, to wear the crown.
The whole question of who we are truly – not in relationship to others, not because of the job we do or how successful we are- is illuminated by what those who have retired, those who are unable to work, and those who spend decades waiting to take the throne show us about identity, achievement and ambition.
And who we are truly is the person God made us to be.
God is not that interested in my income bracket, my annual review, my career plan.
He is very interested indeed in my heart, in my happiness and in the way I use what I have been gifted to serve.
For Christians and people of other faiths, what we have is a gift and what we do with it is a way of showing our heart and our love of God.
Father Richard Lamey is the rector of St Paul’s Church in Wokingham, writing on behalf of Churches Together in Wokingham
