Dear friends, I hope you are well. This greeting is something I'm seeing a lot in letters, emails, texts. But what on earth does that mean? And what if we're not..... Of course we mean that we hope covid's not affected you, but also that you have health in your mind, your heart, your spirit. The wellness also known as "shalom", the lacking-nothing peace of God. If you've not had covid, you'll probably by now know someone that has. How can we have peace in the middle of this d

As I write this on the last day of the year 2020 I, like so many others, am looking back on 2020 – the most extraordinary year in my lifetime. Though I have recently been reminded by someone who lived and worked through the 2nd World War, that those were dark days too with rationing of food and clothes, and saying goodbye to loved ones not knowing whether you would ever see them again. But what we do see when wars or pandemics break out (and I am not suggesting here that this