Coping during the Covid-19 Crisis
We invited all of our Ichthus readers to tell us how they are coping in this current health crisis. It’s a
very difficult time for all of us and for some there will be a great loss and our thoughts and prayers
go out to them. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time and effort to reply and we are
delighted to publish a selection of the contributions received.
I am in my late fifties and able to work from
home and go out to shop which is good as I
live alone. A few days ago my 92 year old
housebound friend rang me to see how I was as I
have a few on-going heath issues. She is a retired
nurse and social worker. I assured her I was
ok and was pleased to hear that her family are
visiting and helping her and that she is ok too.
Wendy Thompson, Croydon
Peace (of mind) is so important to me at present and can help us
all in this crisis. We have Jesus Christ’s word that He is our Peace.
Therefore, if we know Christ, we know peace.
I’ve been a life-long Anglican and a Methodist Local Preacher
since 1997. Here on Alston Moor, now part of Kirkoswald Circuit,
we have tremendous support through our Churches and the
wider community. All of our local chapels have been sold, so we
Methodists have been dubbed the ‘Church without walls’ because
of our unique shared arrangement with our Roman Catholic
friends at St Wulstan’s. It’s a small chapel, which enables visual
aids/posters to be seen fairly easily - I use the altar table for this.
We ‘oldies’ are looked after in a host of the usual practical ways
such as online acts of worship and also printed service sheets
posted to those without computers. Frequent telephone calls
also maintain the sense of belonging and the Comfort of the
Peace of God which passes all understanding. I also reproduce
the themes of my recent services with individual leaflets,
bookmarks or calligraphy. Friends who are unable to attend
chapel find them useful.
David Pepin, Alston, Cumbria
I wrote a reflective poem to help us though this.
It began with the sight of a solitary daffodil
struggling in the mud at the bottom of the
garden.
Then I noticed other daffodils in so many places,
and they became for me a symbol of hope in
these times we are living through.
Catherine James, Town TBC
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