Friday 28th August - new day...

 I think my 10-minute-journal more or less says it all.

I was SO cross and fed-up last night. That cannot, and did, spiral quickly down into a kind of sadness and darkness and despair, to be fought off with every means available. It doesn't do to let such a mood take root; like weeds with tap roots, you have to take action before it gets a hold.

My friends on our zoom homegroup soon lifted me up and back into 'cleaner air'; how on earth do people without family and friends cope?

For me, a homegroup is a group associated with a church. Many do praying and bible study, maybe sing a few worship songs... we four (sometimes five) just natter, unload the week, and then someone will think of a prayer or quotation from scripture as a result of our meandering.

This time, one of us had, during the week, come across 

which couldn't have been more perfect. Nice one. Isaiah!