John Davies: Notes from a small vicar

Come, all you weary and burdened, at a time of the Coronavirus


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If you feel like you can’t do right for doing wrong, you are in good company. As a people for some weeks now we have been asked to carry the burden of this damned coronavirus on our own shoulders. We are commanded to ‘Control The Virus’ - as if we had the power - and abandoned to make our own choices as to what that means in practice. And so you are burdened, for if you stay indoors aren’t you failing to help get the economy moving again; but if you go out aren’t you risking infection and putting extra strain on our health services? If you meet with friends aren’t you putting them all at risk; but if you decline their invitation aren’t you being antisocial? What a bind we are in... what burdens we carry. How they weary us. In this, we are not alone.'. Jesus says, 'Come, all you weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.' A talk for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, 5 July 2020. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.

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John Davies: Notes from a small vicarBy John Davies