Paul Tansey, RIP
I had the delightful opportunity once to have a few beers with the journalist and economist Paul Tansey, who I knew as a friend's brother. He died suddenly while playing tennis last week. Brilliant, and fun, we spent a good evening discussing God and Economics.
It is always inscrutable when such happens. And so I offer the traditional prayer. Here is the obituary.
Into your hands, O Lord
we humble entrust our brother Paul ,
In this life you embraced him with your tender love;
deliver him now from every evil
and bid him enter eternal rest.
The old order has passed away:
welcome him then into paradise,
where there will be no sorrow, no weeping nor pain,
but the fullness of peace and joy
with your Son and the Holy Spirit
for ever and ever.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he put our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him,
For he knows how we are formed;
he remembers that we are dust.
Our days are like those of grass;
like a flower of the field he blooms;
The wind sweeps over him and he is gone,
and his place knows him no more.
Lord, support us all the day long,
until the shadows lengthen,
and the evening comes,
and the busy world is hushed,
and the fever of life is over,
and our work is done.