I wonder how hopeful you’re feeling at the moment? I’ve spent some of the last half year, since lockdown started, feeling a bit hopeless at times to be honest with you. A grief at all the deaths, a frustration at times with the government, a pain at physical separation, with questions about church life and a sense of being confronted. Confronted with the reality of our fragility as humans, confronted with the inevitability of death and also with the melancholic realisation that ‘lockdown restrictions’ didn’t massively change my social life. Because if you haven’t had it, you don’t miss it when it’s taken away from you…! Yet, we are called as Christians to be people of hope. Easy when ‘the wo