Dear
friends
It has been another week of change, with new guidelines and legislation put in place to try to stop the ever-growing pandemic. Yesterday the NHS Track and Trace app was launched and I was busy creating posters for all three of our churches, so that those with a smartphone can scan the ‘QR’ code that allows people to be traced. It is all sounds rather technical but it all seems to work quite simply…providing you have a smartphone of course!
Not everyone likes the idea of the government knowing their every movement…it is very ‘Big Brother is watching!’ How are you feeling about all this? Confident…comforted…assured…worried…confused…sceptical …doubtful…afraid…excluded?
Being under a watchful eye isn’t something new. The psalmist writes –
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.” – Psalm 139
With God, there is no need of any fancy smartphone, or the need to ‘zap a QR code’. God is all-knowing and his love is unconditional. How does that make you feel? Confident…comforted…assured…worried… confused… sceptical…doubtful …afraid…included… loved beyond measure?
However
you are feeling at this very strange and difficult time, may God bless and keep
you safe.
With love and prayers - Julie
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