This is how I remember the conversation:

Some more bad news was related to me. I responded with what I had read on a T – shirt some days previously, namely:

“It’s not that I forget, I just don’t care,” and that it seems that most of the people really don’t care. The other person agreed.

I mentioned also what I had read just now in one of the magazines in the waiting room. It said there that a well known personality thinks that are a couple of stars in the sky, that have helped him out in difficult and awful times. I continued to say that I believe rather in the Living God, who made all the stars.

But now I got the impression that our faith is rather a private thing.

A quote I had read recently came to my mind:

“One of the weaknesses of our modern church is how timid we are in expressing our faith. We are so concious of respecting the private beliefs of others that we end up privatising or own. Yet, if we truly believe that Christ is the centre of God’s purposes for all of creation, then our caution is ill founded.”

The Revd Malcolm Falloon

Warden of the Latimer Fellowship

And what are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ to this:

Matthew 10:32,33

“Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.”

Very solemns Words!