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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Zahid Hussain

Good Morning.

We鈥檝e all had to endure the Lockdowns. For some it was a blessing, an opportunity to renew relationships, to dust off old photo albums and walk-through old memories.

For some it hasn鈥檛 been so easy, and they can鈥檛 wait to be free again.

Just like everything there isn鈥檛 one story to emerge from families in Lockdown. Good, bad, that鈥檚 the human tapestry: the story of us.

And during Lockdown the sound of traffic was replaced by birdsong. It felt to me as though the world was reborn. That this was how the world used to be before we humans plundered it and turned it into a factory on the skin of the planet feeding the wants of us human beings.

I, like others, experienced a lot of change during the Lockdowns. Meetings online. We鈥檝e become used to waiting for parcels to arrive at our doorstep.
And along the way, so many of us have lost someone, or we know of someone who has passed away.

With the rollout of the vast vaccination programme, I believe people will simply go back to the way things were. But let鈥檚 not. Let鈥檚 take the good from what we鈥檝e learned and leave the not-so-good behind.

We may have many stories, but we only have one planet.

Lord, you are the All-Hearing. Allow us to hear the stirring of our conscience, to hear the consequences of the things we鈥檝e done, to allows us to hear the unwinding of our hearts and to take full responsibility for the great gift you鈥檝e given us: Planet Earth.

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