For the birds
Seamus Ahearne has expanded his exercise zone as per guidelines and gets to observe to behaviour of birds on his walks. But he also considers what the pandemic may mean for us.
“It asks us big questions: What am I about? What is important? Who matters to me? Do I matter to anyone? … For us as ministers, it is quite dangerous and can undermine our very existence. Do we need ‘them’ (them=our faith community) more than ‘they’ need us? We feel very ‘useful’ normally. We are very busy. Now many of us can do very little. We don’t like it.”