Today is the first Sunday that people won't be gathering in churches all over the country to worship. Instead, a new way of worshipping, a new way of gathering, will be necessary.
Dave Walker drew this cartoon, which I think is an amazing reminder that the Church isn't the building - as important as they are for so many people - but the people themselves.
As so many mourn the loss of familiar ways of experiencing church and congregation, of Eucharist and fellowship, it offers a glimmer of hope.
As we begin a journey into a new way of understanding church, what about helping the journey with the use of a labyrinth?
They're wonderful, prayerful places where you are free to relax into the journey because there is no race to finish it, and no way to get lost. You start and end at the entrance to the labyrinth, but still finish in a different 'place' to where you began, because you yourself have changed along the way.
There are lots of ways to make them.
Perhaps by drawing. Or, instead of drawing, they can be made in all kinds of ways - on the ground to walk through, or maybe with string and glue like this one I made a few years ago:
Here are some instructions for making them:
and here are a couple of guides that might be useful too:
Labyrinth guide 1
Labyrinth guide 2
♫ Music for today?
Two suggestions. As it's a Sunday, why not a hymn:
Love Divine
The RSCM have also just begun a 'hymn of the day' webpage, which has a short service (with downloadable service sheet) on Sundays too:
RSCM Hymn of the day and Sunday service
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