Thought for the week

ARE you still planning to use this lockdown time to write that novel, learn that language or play the guitar that’s been sitting in the spare room since Christmas 2017?

Or have you given up on the comforting pretence that you’ll use this time to do something constructive and collapsed into a state of glazed-eyed telly or screen watching?

Well, don’t beat yourself up about it too much.

POLICE are searching for a man after a bus driver was spat at in Gwynedd.

North Wales Police said a man attempted to board an Arriva bus in Bangor on March 27 at around 11.45am, but was refused travel.

He is then alleged to have spat at the driver and used “foul language” within earshot of other passengers on the bus.

Police have released a photograph

It’s hard being in the ‘between times.’ Like the space where the waves meet the shore (it’s called the ythlaf by the way), we’re in a constantly shifting place that is neither fully one thing nor the other.

We can’t go back to the way things were, but we don’t yet know how to move forward.

Funnily enough, that’s the situation Jesus’s disciples found themselves in after Jesus returned to his Father and before of a man they wish to speak to in connection with the incident (left).

A North Wales Police spokesman said: “If you know who this person is, or you can help in any way with our investigation, please call us on 101, or use our live webchat http://ow. ly/8ysF50zVlwI.”

Anyone with information is asked to quote the reference number 20000192358. he sent the Holy Spirit to empower them.

Like many of us today, the disciples must have been very unsure, if not downright fearful, of what the future held, uncertain how they would continue to support themselves and those they loved.

All they could do was choose to wait, stay hopeful and sort out the things they could sort out.

And in the end, perhaps all most of us can do is the same: to choose to wait out the virus, stay hopeful and do whatever good we can.

After all, the space between what was and what will be is full of unrealised possibilities.

So let’s step out in faith and trust that with God’s help we’ll find that the gaps created by everything we’ve left behind might be flooded with things that are closer to what we truly need.

Carol Reynolds