I am taking time to look back on the last year and reflect on the enormous upheavals we have all lived through.
I guess the easiest way to approach is to think about things I have learned and discovered.
Firstly, I think I have learned to spell tear or tier or teir or teer. Well sometimes anyway!
We are neither in a sprint or a marathon – perhaps more like a triathlon.
Over the last four months we have changed and adapted to a new reality in the light of the Coronavirus.
I wonder where you stand on the handling a present or not. You know some people they pick up the gift – give it a good squeeze or a shake – or are you the sort of person who likes to look and guess what is inside – do you wrap up presents to make them look like something else – to throw the recipient into thinking they have received something else to make the surprise extra special.
How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? Psalm 137: 4
Psalm 137 was a written whilst the Israelites were in exile in Babylon. For many years the location where worship had happened had been the temple and now in exile they had to work out what it would look like to worship the Lord in a strange land.