Over the pandemic we have come to use Zoom for many meetings, services, training events, funeral visits, family chats (I am also aware that some of you haven’t had this facility but please read on).

One of the positives of using this facility is that it has enabled the users to see each other. It has helped us get to know others across the circuit.

As a minister within the life of the church we get to see the real highs and lows of people’s lives. The highs as people have a day of celebration and are married, the lows as people grieve the loss of a loved one or are anxiously trying to make sense of where God is as they receive bad news.

My husband Peter was an eternal optimist and always saw the best in everyone and everything. He was also a Yorkshire man therefore, he was also always honest and would say things as he saw them, or as they were, albeit with a large dose of humour, a wry smile, and even a twinkle in his eye! He (and therefore we) did not “do Valentine’s Day”, his reason being that he did not need a saint’s day to remind him to tell people he loved them.