Not sure how to say this but need to say something. These are
definitely different times we are facing and I am sure I would feel differently
if I lived a different lifestyle. I really don’t understand the hysteria that
is accompanying this ‘pandemic virus’. I know that it is because of this very
platform, ‘social media’ that has caused this mass hysteria. I’m not totally
sure why people feel the need to purchase large quantities of unrelated
products for a respiratory virus? What are you going to do with a trunk full of
ground beef? I don’t think this is ‘Mad Cow’ related. I kinda get the hand
sanitizer but I wonder if this too will pass, remember the days after 9/11
everyone had an American flag on them; cars, clothes, houses and tattoos, flags
everywhere you looked. Now where are they? Will people stop washing their hands
in a few months? What were they doing last week? Not washing? But what concerns
me the most is what is going to be the new normal? Technology has and will
allow people to take school courses or work from home. Prepared food delivery (bite-squad
etc.) and product delivery (amazon) services have already begun to rise. In
home entertainment; NetFlix, Hulu Disney have made the movie theaters almost
obsolete. As a society we have already begun ‘SOCIAL DISTANCING’ and now the
authorities are encouraging it even forcing and legislating it, removing our
right to assemble by threatening fines and imprisonment for willingly
assembling in groups greater than…(insert arbitrary number).
I do understand and agree that people in high risk age
groups and with compromised immune systems need to take great precautions to
keep themselves as healthy as possible. And I get it that self-quarantining
because of your recent contact may be the best preventative method. I know that
while we can jest about this, that it is a real thing and if its spread can be
slowed down so healthcare workers can get a firm grip on prevention and
treatment, then that is what needs to be done.
My concern is what is going to become the new normal? I
remember a few years ago when fuel prices climbed extremely high and having a
conversation with a man from church. He said that with the rising gas prices he
needed to cut back, his first thought was to quit going to church so he could
save the gas that it took to get there. Not that he was going to stop going out
to eat or quit the gym, he was going to stop going to church. Unfortunately
many are going to forego attending worship services because of this recent
calamity as well. Which can be damaging to their spirituality. First people
will say they are going to stay away for the good of everyone else, then they
stay away because they fear for themselves, then they stay away because they
are unsure and then it has become a habit and they stay away because it is
easier.
This present distress brings more questions than answers.
What do we do? Do we shut down and hole-up? What do we stop doing? The authorities
shutting down the bars doesn’t affect me, shutting down the NBA doesn’t bother
me, closing my workplace because there are more than 50 people there…that affects
me, imposing fines and imprisonment because I go to church that really affects
me! BUT IT WON’T STOP ME. Believe me I can do social distancing, not a biggie! I’ll
stop the gym, I’ll stop eating out, I’ll stop going to the movies, the mall,
bowling and concerts. But I need my Christian family! I need them to hold up my
arms just as they need me to hold up theirs.
When it’s all said and done we each one will have to answer
for ourselves that is a guarantee. Revelation
2:4 But I have this against you, that
you have left your first love. Let this not be said of us!
I have no answers. We each need to do what we think is best
for our families and ourselves.
No comments:
Post a Comment