Is it wrong to be energised by this?

As I sit here on a glorious spring morning in Derbyshire, looking out from the room where I write, I feel an odd mixture of gratitude, apprehension and excitement.

Gratitude for what is. Personal good health, a healthy family, a happy home, a beautiful location and doing work that I love. Not a lot of money, but enough. When we are where we are at the moment, it's a lot to be grateful for.

Apprehension around the point that we're at this morning. Two weeks into lockdown the novelty is wearing off, and the near term reality beginning to bite. I don't think coronavirus is an incident, or a bump in the road, its a fork in the road and it's asking questions of us.

• Do we want to carry on the way we have been, or do we want to change direction?

• Are we happy with the way we are treating our fellow humans?

• Are we happy with how we are stewarding our home, the planet and its other guests.?

• Just how much is enough?

• Will we step up, or hide, from this crisis?

Excitement that this might, just might, be a…