Today we managed to film our first service of worship at home -a real family affair with all hands on deck. It means that tomorrow we can all worship together as a church community simply by going to this website and clicking church online. If you had a Worship Kit delivered before the Lockdown, you can use the resources in it -candle; picture on an easel and world ball.

My prayer is that this will help you to create new rhythms in your life. Worship @ Home will be a new way of doing Sabbath, just as we are discovering new ways of doing so many of our daily activities. Establishing new rhythms is important for our own well being. We will each discover different ways that work for us -and others that don’t.

As we walked this afternoon round the block (and found teddies in the windows of 38 houses) I loved seeing the sea -ever changing and yet ever the same. I was reminded that the sea has its own rhythm -the ebb and flow of the tide. This is the rhythm we need to esptablish for ourselves. There will be ebbs and flows as we do this new normal. Things that take us inward and things that draw us outward. I encourage you to find your own rhythm of prayer, conversation, space, work, food, exercise, entertainment and anything else that you need to be fully alive -both inwardly and outwardly.