‘Online Worship is a testament to the need of many of us to relate to the unseen together.’ Photo: by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash

‘Perhaps the virus indirectly validates our own experiences of the unseen.’

Unseeing is believing: Hazel Inskip’s thought for the week

‘Perhaps the virus indirectly validates our own experiences of the unseen.’

by Hazel Inskip 16th April 2021

‘If their tonsils have been removed, you will not see them. This is the area you should swab.’ In the early phase of the pandemic, these words were part of instructions to the general public for taking a throat swab from people who couldn’t do it for themselves. The words reminded me of the nursery rhyme ‘Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there! He wasn’t there again today, Oh how I wish he’d go away’.