Happy Easter.
I went for a walk of exercise and remembering in the Easter dawn.
The lurid sky could be a ‘shepherd’s warning’. It could be a reminder that my Christian faith is ‘not normal’ – there is something rare and exotic about it, for I believe that Jesus is alive, and is the living presence (acknowledged or secret) in every deed of love and every greeting between disciples, whether we are separated by no distance, 2m, or an internet cable.
Things are, or course, ‘not normal’, but with the recent near misses of SARS and MERS, we should be ready for the current experience to be repeated. I pray that God will support our governments in the difficult decisions they have to make; and I pray that these people will have the decency to find their decisions difficult.