Remarkable Mothering Sunday

Sunday 22nd March 2020

Set up ready for the live-streaming of the morning service (with two of us present in my study and 29 Zooming in online) with the screen showing that I'm first listening to the service from Lambeth Palace with the Archbishop of Canterbury also confined at home.

Meanwhile we had left flowers outside all our churches as gifts for Mothering Sunday.  One church made extra posies part way through the day as 25 people in the village appreciated the offer.

A local cafe, closed to diners, delivered the Sunday roast to doorsteps throughout the middle of the day.
     The first day of self-isolation has been energising as people have risen to the occasion with kindness and ingenuity.  It remains to be seen how we feel after twelve weeks of it; but as we face our frailty and powerlessness, it is salutory to recognise that we humans cannot control everything.  All we can do is to trust in God's love and act in accordance with that love.