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Blog Post 1. Finding Faith: Facing Fear.

Rev. Dr. Neil Mancor, Congregational Development Anglican Diocese of Montreal.

Wednesday 18 March, 2020

Wow. Life can change in a moment. Last Friday I went into work downtown as usual. Caught the 8:14 train as always; got off at Lucien L’Allier and walked over to Place Cathedrale; went to work. Everything was normal. But then it wasn’t. It was the cancellations that got my attention. First this Church, then that. Later whole Dioceses suspending services. Many other closures all over the place. Airlines starting cancelling flights. Companies told their staff not to come into work. Gyms were closing. The news was unsettling as whole cities began to shut down. But I have to go work.

And then Sunday came. A Sunday without Church as I have always known it. All of a sudden, everything has changed. We stopped going into work and have to work from home. Routines disrupted, life has ground to a halt and it is hard to see what will replace it or how long it will last. It is the uncertainty of it all – the sheer, relentless, wide open uncertainty. Fear sets in. I find the fear almost overwhelming at moments. Its not that I am so afraid of contracting COVID-19. But the fallout of it all is fearsome. The implications are vast and unknowable. I don’t know if we will be ok. I don’t know what life might look like when this ends. Will it end?

God: God where are you in this? I don’t know how to pray into this; I don’t know what to pray. Thy will be done on earth indeed. The whole Earth seems to be swirled into this vast, strange crisis.

But then I remember that we serve a God who is vast and mysterious. Never easy to understand, impossible to grasp this God yet presses into our lives and walks with us through it all. Does that mean anything right now? But nothing else makes sense of the with-us God revealed in Jesus Christ who pitched his tent and lived amongst us.

So here I struggle: to find God with us.

Neil’s Digital Calendar – in Response to the Pandemic

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