COVID19

In recent weeks we have seen a change in our society. The lock down has changed us all. Our freedoms that we have taken for granted. We have found new ways to connect with our friends and family. Going to Church is flicking on your computer and watching it on the screen. Life has changed. But, with all the clapping on a Thursday evening the Charity fund-raising for NHS Charities the talk of PPE  I believe things that we can do ourselves. 

Lockdown has made us confront one or two things about ourselves and also society. 

The first thing is that we have had to confront ourselves. Maybe at this time we can be invited to get to know ourselves a little better. To reflect on what makes us tick to unlock who we really are. In the silence and stillness of the world we have been faced with ourselves. Reflect on who we are not what others think about us or how many likes we get but on who we really are.  Maybe see where we can change when we get out of this present situation.
Will the real me please stand up: with lockdown we have had to reflect on who we really are. Take time to think about this. I have kept a diary to see where it is leading me my inner thoughts and anxieties. This time therefore is a learning of self. So when we come out the Real me comes and stands in the world.  Pray through it if that's what you do or reflect and be still listening to yourselves. 

The other thing that we have had to confront in the big taboo subject in the world today. Death. We have become a society that has hidden from this truth. I remember so many funerals where I was asked to get it done quickly. To remind people that they have not gone but simply in another room. We are confronted with this truth that everyone has a beginning and an end. we live and we die. As a society we have not spoken about Death and the meaning of it in our lives. Everyday over the crisis we have been confronted with the figures of those who have died. It is unnerving and so we need a conversation in every home about death. To take this time around the family table to look at the meaning of life and also what it means to die. The virus has shown us that we are vulnerable that we are not invincible. That we all have to die. 

It has shown us also the need for each other. We have increasingly become a selfish society the me world. The Virus has shown us the need for each other. In a recent poll 90% of people in the UK do not want to go back to the way things were before the Virus. They seem to want a kinder society where we take care of each other a lot more.  We need to look beyond ourselves. We can see a world that is not revolved around ourselves that we recognise each person as a precious gift from God that we try and help our brothers and sisters. That everyone in society matters from the people who clean our streets to the bankers in the city. We all have a part to play. We become less of a me culture and more of a we culture. 

Lastly we need to look after what has been given to us that is the world. Over the last few weeks there has been countless reports of bluer skies of bird song being heard louder in the morning. Of jelly fish in Venice to sheep hanging out in villages. This world is in our care. When this is all over we need to look after what has been given to us. To appreciate the natural world and to look after it. Walk rather than drive bird feeders in gardens and take time to breath in what is our beautiful world. 

These are just some thoughts I have been having over the last few weeks I hope you like them and maybe come up with your own list of things to ponder and think about. 

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