Being present when words seem hollow
Rev Mia Kyte Hilborn reflects on the past year serving those on the frontline
The pandemic continues. It is the first time anyone younger than 101 has lived through a time like this, where every connected country and people group have been perversely united against a common enemy, coronavirus, in its increasingly variant forms.
The so-called Spanish flu was different, as the information exchange was far less, scientific and medical knowledge was nowhere near the complexities of today, and society wasn’t as mobile.
I am head of chaplaincy for Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Evelina London Children’s hospitals, and for the London Fire Brigade and the Firefighters Memorial Trust. My work is with the sick and the...
Along with everyone else, we are so tired. We have gone through the excitement at the beginning of the first wave: the adrenaline rush to get things changed, to prepare the best treatment...
We were transfixed, watching numbers, waiting, trying to make sure people took snatches of time to walk along the river or in a park. Many, including myself, don’t have a garden. As London...
