Social media brought up this photo from March 2020 when I was invited to share in leading prayers for a national Baptist online event...  apart from Skype for business nearly breaking my laptop and having to do a very late switch to my mobile phone, and some other glitches meaning my face was showing when someone else was speaking, it all went fairly smoothly.

As I reflect back, it was the start of a very strange time, and it was a real privilege to be involved (people genuinely seemed to appreciate my prayers).  Those four years have flown past, and such a lot has changed.  I wonder what the historians will make of it in another century when, on balance of probability, some other pandemic may well have occurred...