As we hang up our new calendars and open our new diaries, I expect than many of us will be glad 2020 is over. We will be looking forward to the New Year and what that might bring, hoping for an end to the restrictions we are experiencing due to COVID-19. Looking back, COVID has highlighted the interconnected nature of human lives. An event on one side of the globe soon impacts around the other side of the world. The actions of individuals can have huge implications for others that were neither intended nor even considered. An individual’s carelessness, lack of thought or concern for others can bring devastating effects to families.
there was noise and commotion, an incredible din. The innkeeper was busy, his rooms were all taken Most arrived for a census, the nation was shaken Their animals watered, their children were fed and for many they shared the same floor for their bed. But soon it was quiet as all fell asleep, save for sheep on the hills – you could just hear them bleat. The silence was broken by a knock at the door – a man and his wife, expecting one more. “But go to the stable, where there’s straw for your bed.” So they lay themselves down and prepared for the night