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Please continue to keep one another afloat


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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: By the Rev John Nugent of Wick St Fergus Church

As Janey Godley says, I hope that you all have your emotional life jackets with you and that you are keeping one another afloat.

In fact, I want to talk to you about the second part of Janey’s wee phrase. Just now, keeping one another afloat is so important but it would be true to say that it was never NOT important.

We are passing through remembrance season when we remember our folk who gave their lives in time of war. In the military there is no place for individualism because everyone depends on one another. Individualism (especially the weaponised sort) is the bane of our culture, our society, our lifestyle and, dare I say it, our religion and the Church. But a sense of corporate responsibility, where we place the needs of our neighbour above our own, is what is important right now. The anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers and QAnon fans have knowingly given up on their responsibility for the welfare of their neighbour and this grieves me.

However, the amazing acts of kindness during Covid give me hope for the future. The way folk are keeping one another afloat bodes well.

St Paul wrote that everyone should regard one another as better than themselves. There is therefore no place for privatised society, privatised culture, privatised Christianity. Please continue to keep one another afloat.


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