Comfort.
Being afraid.
We’re starting to come to the hard realisation that this pandemic is not going away any time soon. We’re starting to understand that this new variant is incredibly easily transmitted and this new knowledge is scary.
That fear is understandable. For many, we’re starting to see quite how close this virus is getting. We are – perhaps for the first time – starting to see people sick first hand
The Prime Minister has assured us that the vaccine roll out is going well, indeed I saw this morning that one hospital in London did 6000 vaccinations in one day. We can take comfort in that knowledge and in those figures. But somehow, that cold knowledge doesn’t always lesson the fear and anxiety.
It is a very great thing to reach beyond the figures and the reality of the world around us – and after contemplating it – reach the unchangeable love of God.
But it is in that contemplation and in that prayer that we most fully start to find Gods inexhaustible love and comfort for us.
God speaks to us not with facts and figures, not from a podium, but through the centre of our beings. He reaches out through time and space and embraces us so fully that we can not fail to feel His love and comfort. Be comforted.
Fr. Matthew
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