I stay away from the news... mostly. I barely watch TV... before the Queen's funeral on BBC.co.uk, I think the last thing I had on the telly was New Year's Eve Fireworks 😂

I recently started watching a live stream on Sundays of a church service in the United States. I personally find them more liberating and real than the church services I have attended in the UK on occasion (the latter I have only attended for baptisms, weddings, and funerals). The American services seem to be imbibed with a lot more energy and have a more modern and relaxed feel to them. One of the things the pastor says each week is

Go, be the Church!

And this is in beautiful synchronicity with this, quoted from one of your comments:

Yet how reassuring it would be for the oppressed to hear the voices that stand with them. Ineffectual politically, perhaps, but emotionally valuable.

How important that we carry that central focus on God, Divinity, and love into the world and allow it to radiate outward from there. Yesterdays sermon was great. There was an emphasis on not allowing the world to happen to you and instead on allowing Christ to happen to the world.

And yes... the beauty of God is always to be found in His creation.
!LUV