John 1st April 2016

As we grew up and saw Moira and the rest of her Harnett family on holidays I came to realise that she was the most artistically talented person I knew – by a long way. I was therefore rather in awe of her, but I need not have been. I can remember meeting her in Birmingham when she came for an interview and she was lots of fun and immediately made me think musical scholarships and the like were, well, fine and good but not a subject for personal pride. Moira’s life was not, alas, to bring her the adulation of enraptured audiences. Her achievement was infinitely greater – God’s grace demonstrated in adversity. To have seen that is to have been touched by the One Who made all the talents there have ever been, and of course Moira’s too. And Who gave grace: tough grace, grace with tears, grace with many questions, but still Grace. For Moira and for all who cared for and sustained her, thank-you. John & Alyson Holden