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March 17th, 2020
Australia has delayed too long in shutting everything down, and the number of cases is rapidly escalating.
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Hockey games are being delayed until May. I'm almost tempted to sign up, but I'd still only get a few games at the end of the season.
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Our gardening club met in person last night. We only had about 20-25 members where we usually have 35-40. The average age was much younger than usual. We spaced the chairs further apart, one person took names and details, and although supper was served, the servers handed out the food.
We'll be cancelling all meetings going forward, but looking at options for doing a meeting or two via streaming.
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The garden trail that was to run this weekend has been postponed, we don't know until when.
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I emailed the company brokering the job in Canberra and got a 'it's still on', but watching everything shut down, I'm doubtful. It may be a lean winter.
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A very small thinkpiece by me: How to be 'church' in the midst of pandemic. It seems there's a lot of people really straining with the idea that they might have to close down church gatherings, and a lot of quoting of the 'do not let us give up meeting as some have been in the habit of doing' by Paul which...
Sometimes I do not understand my fellow Christians. Really do not understand. Context matters; the biblical passage were people who thought they could be Christians alone, and Paul is advising them (like John Donne many centuries later) that they're not an island and they'll benefit from Christian community. It's not about refusing to sequester oneself in the face of pandemic.
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Now that the garden trail isn't on this weekend, I'm feeling a little discombobulated. I've been focused on this for the last few months so...this is new. Different. Maybe confusing.
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Hockey games are being delayed until May. I'm almost tempted to sign up, but I'd still only get a few games at the end of the season.
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Our gardening club met in person last night. We only had about 20-25 members where we usually have 35-40. The average age was much younger than usual. We spaced the chairs further apart, one person took names and details, and although supper was served, the servers handed out the food.
We'll be cancelling all meetings going forward, but looking at options for doing a meeting or two via streaming.
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The garden trail that was to run this weekend has been postponed, we don't know until when.
--
I emailed the company brokering the job in Canberra and got a 'it's still on', but watching everything shut down, I'm doubtful. It may be a lean winter.
--
A very small thinkpiece by me: How to be 'church' in the midst of pandemic. It seems there's a lot of people really straining with the idea that they might have to close down church gatherings, and a lot of quoting of the 'do not let us give up meeting as some have been in the habit of doing' by Paul which...
Sometimes I do not understand my fellow Christians. Really do not understand. Context matters; the biblical passage were people who thought they could be Christians alone, and Paul is advising them (like John Donne many centuries later) that they're not an island and they'll benefit from Christian community. It's not about refusing to sequester oneself in the face of pandemic.
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Now that the garden trail isn't on this weekend, I'm feeling a little discombobulated. I've been focused on this for the last few months so...this is new. Different. Maybe confusing.
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