The roadmap out of lockdown, announced this week by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has inspired the latest column by Vicar of Mossley, Reverend David Warner.
Well, we have a road map and though it probably isn’t what any of us want, or the speed we might want, we hopefully all feel that we’re getting somewhere.
On the subject of travel and road maps, the problem with satnav, at least for me, is that I just await the next instruction, rather than learning a route or taking in the surroundings. I get where I was hoping to go, but without much of an idea or memory of the journey.
Journeys are important - in the world before motorised transport, journeying was much harder and took longer, and perhaps people took less for granted - the journey was part of the experience of a holiday, pilgrimage or other travel.
The journey of Covid has been a torturous and painful one, and will be for some time yet, but nothing of the experience should be wasted - we have much to continue to learn from all the little (and not so little) things we have seen and encountered about ourselves and our communities, and our newly discovered ways of working and being in the months and years ahead.
On March 1 we celebrate St David, who I’m fond of for obvious reasons - his last recorded words were: “Lords, brothers and sisters, Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. And as for me, I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us.”
That’s good enough for me for now.
Reverend David Warner, Mossley Parish Vicar
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