This Pentecost Sunday, my family is spending the long weekend (Monday is the Queen's birthday holiday) in Hamilton and thoroughly enjoying it in a home away from home R & R holiday. So woke up this morning to join in with two live morning church services (back to back) that were livestreamed with the 9am service at Life Church and 10am with Mangere PIC (Presbyterian).
During the services it was neat to reflect back in how the COVID environment sped up the need for people to be able to connect remotely via digital media when whole countries and communities were in lockdown. Now we are able to connect to church services digitally without having to attend physically in services particularly if we can't be there in person.
We are now learning to live with the virus but still in NZ with daily averages of approximately 11 people dying per day and a daily average of 6,000 - 7,000+ people reported as catching the COVID virus.
It is scary to think that this is now our norm in having such a pervasive virus living within our communities despite various attempts to stamp out the virus. It seems even more difficult as there are predictions that with the winter flu onset that there will be more people presenting to hospitals with complications from both and this will add to the pressures of our Health systems.
Despite this, we are grateful for the various interventions that are at present trying to combat the spread of the virus through mask wearing, vaccinations, isolations and general keeping as healthy as possible. This Pentecost Sunday, I'm just thankful to have my family together enjoying each others company and counting out blessings...
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