Thank you

Thank you for caring, supporting and loving each other. 

Thank you for banding together and digging deep.

Thank you for washing your hands thoroughly, following coughing and sneeze etiquette and isolating when you feel unwell.

Thank you for staying home and supporting all our phenomenal healthcare providers and first responders who have and continue to work tirelessly for our health and safety; all while feeling rundown, exhausted, overworked, understaffed, underfunded and too often unappreciated. And then to be advised to distance oneself even from the people you live with and love.

Thank you for reaching out to others for help and allowing others the privilege of doing so.

Thank you to all the people who sanitise and clean day in and day out, and over and over again.

Thank you to all providers of essential services. To those who stack shelves with food, keep their petrol stations open, install our NBN, fix our plugged toilets, and deliver our online orders. You help us continue to have access to all we need.

Thank you to learning providers who have taken face-to-face learning and developed online education, interaction and connection, literally overnight. 

Thank you church leaders for providing innovative and still meaning points of connection in recognition that when oceans are deep and unchartered, our souls need an anchor. 

Thank you to the fitness industry, sporting clubs and exercise professionals who offer services to keep us active and moving in clever and fun ways at home.

Thank you to all the amazing mental health and addiction professionals who are providing your services in new and accessible ways to help us journey through our own trepidation and overwhelm. 

Thank you to all the crisis hotlines that support those in vulnerable situations. You are truly a God-send for those who stay home, yet home is not safe. 

Thank you for believing and hoping. That beyond the dismay that COVID-19 has enveloped our world in, there is hope. And hope still rises.

Thank you for serving. We love you.

This is a distressing time. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, contact the following crisis services:

Emergency 000
Lifeline 13 11 14

Beyond Blue  1300 224 636

Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800

Headspace 1800 650 890

MensLine 1300 78 99 78
Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467