The second Sunday in December is worldwide candle-lighting day, a chance for people to light candles for children who have died. 

The grief of miscarriage, still birth, and of losing a child is not as well-acknowledged as one might hope. In my home town, people are invited to come together for a non-religious ceremony in which there is the chance to light a candle for the deceased and to speak his or her name. 

I will be singing spring the ceremony. It is the tenth year the ceremony has been held, and I’ve sung almost every year from the start. It is one of the hardest ceremonies to sing, even whilst knowing that the babies and children live on in the broken hearts of those who are present. 

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