When you read about Jesus talking about yokes, does it summon up for you (as it does for me), a picture of cattle pulling a heavy plough, which is attached to the wooden yoke across their necks? Or an image of a milk maid carrying two heavy churns of milk which are hung on a yoke? Is that the kind of yoke that Jesus is talking about?
I thought that I had reached a point of zoom choir fatigue, but was well and truly stopped in my tracks by the release yesterday of the video by Tim Hughes and an army of worship leaders from across the country singing The Blessing over the nation.
At the present time, as we are all in varying degrees of isolation and when social distancing is the new norm, it's easy to look back to the good old days prior to the lockdown and to talk of when things eventually return back to normal. Other people talk about the fact that we will never return to the old normal, but that we'll settle into a new normal.
I don't know about you, but I've been challenged and encouraged by Captain Tom Moore, at the time of writing he's just passed the £27.5 million mark through undertaking a daily walk around his garden.
Living with our grandson for the last year or so has taught me a lot about patience, but it has also given me a fresh insight into what Jesus was meaning when he said that we should be like little children.