Covid, lawn mowers and false widow spiders

What a week! Hard to describe. Defies words, but lots have been used and a new one - Covid. For me, trying to lead a church remotely, online is totally different. For someone whose bread and butter is sitting with people, being with people, this is strange. Still, I am learning new things: Zoom, WebEx and online Sundays. And praying lots. In the midst of it all, I had the call that every parent dreads: "Your son has had an accident". Tom had turned his lawn mower off to get a stick out. In doing so, the blades reactivated and pulled his fingers and thumb in. Thankfully, the hand surgeon was operating that day and saved his fingers. In the next bed was a man who had a finger amputated after being bitten by a false widow spider - I didn't know such things happened in the south of England...What a week!