So here I am, Saturday morning and no football.
Hmm. At least the sun is shining. (Oh ... maybe not). What an incredible, and largely unexpected, privilege to be able to carry out an incredible Zoom-a-thon with all my closest family members this week. Well done, Zoom-makers – good on ya!! (Ice creams all round). The potential of Zoom for us inter-netters!! No wonder God was able to see deep into the future potential of all that he had made and declare with great joy and confidence that ‘it was very good’ (Genesis 1:31). But what about all the Non-Zoomers, all the Can’t-Zoomers, all the Hard-To-Zoomers out there in this big, wide mad, mixed-up world of ours?!? I sometimes find when there is a lot going on in the world, my tendency is to retreat, to process stuff, to weigh things up, to feel the highs and the lows of it all quite deeply – the negative possibilities and, in time, and in the grace of God, the many, many positive possibilities. Let’s face it, even in the times we had come to call ‘normal’, just drinking the morning coffee that I enjoy raised all kinds of questions around the deep injustices in our world that almost certainly exploit the growers and pickers at the other end of the process. (Just as one example). Or another example ... do we help the happy hens today (or at least the might-be-happy hens) and how do we really know what is going on behind all of our so-called consumer choices in a world driven by excessive profits for the fewer and fewer? And so I think I am going to do an occasional blog. I can cope with that kind of pace. I hope it is helpful to you.
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