Today we managed to get our website back up -phew! So I have posted my past days’ blogs which I had been writing but not able to post. Tonight we will be having our first Parish Council meeting via Zoom -and I am looking forward to updating the team and looking at exciting ways forward in this new normal. Zoom is a significant part of my new normal and I am so grateful we have these amazing technologies through which we can connect. However, when walking along the waterfront, I delighted in seeing a couple of wonderful parishioners waving down at me from many floors up. Real face to face connection, even though from a distance, has a whole new delight in these days. Let us enjoy the contacts we get, whether through a screen or along a telephone line or the smile of someone walking on the opposite side of the street. My reading this morning was from Psalm 133, with these words -

How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! …For there the Lord ordained his blessing, life for evermore.

Our unity may be experienced in different forms, but it is unity that brings blessings indeed.