Passing the anniversary of the pandemic outbreak, with hope shining brightly on the horizon like the advent of spring, it seems like a good time to take stock of where this year of isolation from social norms as brought us.
While grateful for the silver linings, we’d be remiss…..
Our pandemic has brought many miseries, but the biggest loss may be its loneliness. There since the beginning – along with fear, alarm, frustration, confusion, and anger – to name a few of its covid-spawned siblings – our ache from unconnectedness has formed the backdrop of our nearly year-long experience. With Christmas only days…..
When the pandemic hit us back in March, I saw it not as a punishment God was inflicting on us – history demonstrates that we humans are quite capable of bringing trouble on ourselves – but that the Lord would use this time to teach us something. This has happened…..
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As part of the fallout from our current lockdown, I’m feeling hug deprived. Not only do I not have my grandkids to hold, but I’m also missing the many pleasant greeting embraces I typically receive in the course of a week from my friends and family.
I’ve heard little talked about this great loss COVID has wrought – our restrictions on touching each other. In the new post-pandemic world will we have to refrain…..
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By my count, we’ve now accumulated more the fifty days in our current lockdown mode. I’m sure I could easily cite fifty reasons I wish it were over already.
In the forefront lies the recognition that, as someone very cleverly put it, “We’re not all in the same boat; we’re all in the same storm.” We are not suffering equally, and it’s frustrating to feel the limitations of what I can do to be helpful in…..
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One thing COVID-19 has done definitively is to remind us that we’re not in charge. In fact, it’s a pretty outsized object lesson in that truth. Surely there’s enough that happens in life without a pandemic to convince us that life doesn’t go according to our own scripts.
Still, we do have a love affair with being in charge. This desire to be our own God is as old as the Garden of Eden…..
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Our current circumstance of sheltering at home brings this expression, “Misery loves company” to mind rather readily. Yes, we’re all in this “same boat” but we can’t get together physically to moan about it! I suppose the expression could mean: “If I have to be miserable, I want everyone to suffer right along with me,” but that’s not the interpretation I’m going for. I’m missing the solace we would normally get from airing our…..