St. David: Ink Drawing by Jonathan Edwards If you allow me to paraphrase Charles Dickens, by the time of St. David, Wales was going...

“Think how much our Father loves you, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are!”

Silvanus never pretended to be a second-rate number one, but rather accepted his calling as a loyal and first-rate number two.

As Elijah's story points out, seeing the hand of God in the small things was as important as it was destroying the big altars of false gods.