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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rev Dr Calvin T Samuel

Good morning.

On the 22nd of March 2020, like many churches across the country, we cancelled Mothering Sunday services hoping to return within a few weeks. Today marks 5 months since the Prime Minister announced #Lockdown measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since then, the world has changed in unforeseeable ways. Things we took for granted, freedom of movement, or the stability of global economies, proved to be illusory. Items of little significance suddenly became premium goods. Who could have predicted that toilet rolls, hand sanitizer, and eggs would number among the most highly sought consumer goods or foods?

The toll of the pandemic has been enormous: deaths in the tens of thousands and a loss of over 100,000 jobs in the UK alone. And it鈥檚 not over.

One of the things that the pandemic and #Lockdown have begun to teach us is how to live with uncertainty. In truth, uncertainty has not increased. Rather, we鈥檝e seen how little we actually control, despite our best efforts to the contrary.

This pandemic is a lesson in learning to live in the now, because the future is unpredictable. If, like me, you鈥檙e a bit of a control freak, this is a bitter pill to swallow.

Sovereign God,
who alone holds the future,
teach us by your Spirit
how to live in the present.
In your Son, give us eyes that see
ears that hear and
hearts that gratefully apprehend,
even in the midst of great trial and loss,
something of your goodness and grace
in the world.

Amen.

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