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During the next week or so I plan to post a number of interviews with Christians about how this crisis is impacting their work lives. Most of them are people working in the medical sphere. Today is a bit different. I asked Alun Ebenezer, Head Master of Fulham Boys School, if he could share with us. (Fulham Boy's School was deliberately built with a Christian ethos as one of its three core pillars: Faith. Boys. Enterprise . See: https://www.fulhamboysschool.org/about-us/christian-ethos/ ). Perhaps it is not surprising that he was just too busy to stop and talk right now! Alun is a great guy, always ready for some chat and banter - so this says something about the pressure that he and other teachers are under too. As we remember those working on the medical frontline, let's not forget that teachers are doing a huge amount of work too - doing their best to provide an on going education for our children via on-line resources and keeping schools open and functional for the chil

Real faith is able to face and acknowledge the darkest realities of life and still trust God . Real faith is not burying your head in the sand and turning a blind eye to difficulties, pretending everything is ok and everything is easy. Real faith is often a battle - a struggle to hold on to what we know about God when the whole world seems to be falling apart around us. A number of Psalms and other Scriptures articulate this struggle in a whole range of challenging circumstances. This is a paraphrase I wrote based on Lamentations 3:1-33, where Jeremiah gave full and vivid expression to his great sorrows and sufferings before his faith breaks through to assert an ongoing wholehearted confidence in God. In normal times, it would be unusual to sing a song like this in church! But we are not in normal times and it might help you to voice The cry of your heart to God. It was printed several months ago in the Free Church of Scotland magazine, ‘The Record’ 1 and can be sung to the tune