 Good afternoon. Can I remind members that social distancing mesures are in place across the Holyrood campus? I ask that members take care to observe the measures including when they go in and out of the chamber. Please only use the aisles and walkways to access your seat when you are moving around the chamber. The first item of business this afternoon is time for reflection. Our time for reflection leader today is Reverend Dr Jenny Wright, convener at the Church and Society Committee of Scotland's Episcopes Church and associate priest Christchurch morning sight. Presiding officer, members of the Scottish Parliament, thank you for the opportunity to address you this afternoon. There is a lot about life at the moment that is worrying. It is exhausting living with uncertainty and we have had almost 18 months of great uncertainty. Couple two with great loss and much grief. There have been ups and downs on this journey, most of them unforeseen. As we turn from the G7 meeting towards COP26, we are confronted with headlines that speak of the doom of our planet. Faced with the destruction of natural resources, flooding, famine and drought in the midst of a pandemic can make even the strongest amongst us halta. And yet the human instinct for survival remains. But life surely isn't only about surviving. It is about flourishing. The Hebrew word for peace is shalom. This is used throughout the Old Testament for God's goodness and is often spoken about in Christian circles as the ideal of what we long for and what we hope for. Its translation as peace, though, is somewhat of a misnomer. Push along isn't merely the absence of violence, it is the flourishing of all humanity, indeed the flourishing of all creation. It is a time of rest, a Sabbath of joy and wellbeing. We as individuals, as communities and as nations long for that. In the midst of the chaos and uncertainty that is life, which really all desire the security of a Sabbath of joy and wellbeing. But this isn't something that we expect to receive, handed to us on a silver platter. It is something that every person is called to participate in. It is a state of being where we recognise our mutual reliance on each other and the realisation that our joy can never be complete while others suffer. Shalom is a characterisation of community, a role of life that helps us to live well together. It is a recognition that no one is safe until we are all safe, that there is no planet B, that we are all suffering and grieving and anxious and exhausted. We are invited to find, amidst all that, a place where our longing for joy and wellbeing can become a reality. Shalom is the space where we match up our needs and our hopes, our fears and visions that ultimately find rest along the way. Thank you.