Grapevine – Third Sunday of Lent 2020

There is no doubt that when the Oxford English Dictionary decides its new words for the year “Coronavirus” will be one of them. A word we had never used a couple of months ago has become the number one topic of conversation. I was struck by a verse from the letter to the Romans set for this Sunday “We know that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us because God’s love has been poured into our hearts.”