At church this weekend we sang the worship song Goodness of God
All my life You have been faithful,
All my life You have been so, so good…
With every breath that I am able, I will sing of the goodness of God
And in the middle of worship I found myself wondering whether anyone could ever sing the same about public institutions.
All my life, the state has been faithful
All my life, public administration has been good to me
It may have surfaced because I’d been able to make some progress with PrayReps this week. Or perhaps because of my day job helping the Department for Work and Pensions to design a new approach to providing jobs and careers support for the country. A life-long companion to help people navigate work, whether they’re seeking their first job, having a mid-career reinvention, or easing into a well-earned retirement.
What would it take for one of our future users to say: “All my life, it’s been good to me. It didn’t fail me. It was there”.
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