A New Hope

Now I do not usually write about predictions. Predictions are very unreliable. But I want to make a prediction regarding this evening. Jane will come home from work, I will have our favourite Chicken salad with walnuts and grapes ready and then we will sit down to watch “A New Hope”. It is May the fourth so we will watch the film that gave us the phrase, may the force be with you. The First of the Star Wars films. But watching “A New Hope” in the middle of a pandemic is no bad thing. Don’t we all want a new hope at this time. I touched on it a bit yesterday in my sermon. We all hope that the sense of community is retained. Many of us have enjoyed the quieter roads and getting out on bikes, wouldn’t that be nice to be retained, many of us are realising that the really important people in this world are not the ones usually valued by the old normal of a worldview that supports greed, tax evasion and selfishness. There are so many who are wanting the new normal to be very different from what there was before, let’s see if we can make it happen. It is up to us to make a new hope a reality. let’s not let this opportunity pass us by.