Curate Conundrums

  I was speaking to my neighbour the other day, at an appropriate social distance of course, and we got into an unusually long conversation about our lockdown experiences. She spoke of hope, dreams, disappointments ups and downs, and one particular well known phrase kept cropping up; “There’s light at the end of the tunnel.” She reflected perhaps the way many of us might be feeling. Weary but slightly hopeful that things are going to change relatively soon. That hopefully we’re over the worst of it. That soon she would be able to see her grandchildren again. I was speaking to Paul the other day and he asked ‘How are you?’ I responded, ‘Oh you know, not too bad.’ Paul then asked ‘why do people always say oh you know. I don’t know that’s why I’m asking.’ He has a good point. We don’t know. We don’t know how other people are feeling, or what’s going on. Today our Gospel reading shows Jesus doing a similar thing. What do I mean? Well, the people gathered there don’t know what’s