Feeling Good
How are you feeling? I’m enjoying a bit of a break, and loving the ability to go to some ‘live’ music and theatre. The picture at the top of this comes from a BBC broadcast of a Prom concert this summer. I was lucky to be in the Royal Albert Hall that night, and the soloist had just played an encore which moved me to tears; the camera fixed on our part of the 3,000 strong crowd just as I stood to applaud... But that emotion - that being moved to tears - was, I think, not just about the music I had just heard. Like so many of us, these COVID months have been something of a ride for me. I’ve struggled in all sorts of ways, and been lucky in all sorts of ways. Joy has been hard to come by; grief has been a near neighbour. I expect the full implications of what we are all going through are some way off being revealed. And in the midst of this, the Church of England is moving ahead with its Living in Love and Faith project. I’ve tried to engage with some of those in current epis...