Living through so many of life’s biggest questions unanswered, for all of us, in this pandemic time, I’m giving myself the gift of being fully present and resting.
As I ponder the question of why I do not participate in enough ERUUF Sunday Services, when I almost always gain large nuggets of thought provoking hope, I recognize that like the anxiety of the pandemic, there is no use in these types of questions; it's better to focus on moving forward.
Our minister then connected the feelings of anxiety and stifled behaviors of our current "quarantine" to the the feelings that people of color and other disenfranchised people must feel on a regular basis. I have been thinking the same thing, as I discuss with my friends how it's our fathers, the white male baby-boomer generation, who are having the hardest time participating within the social distancing rules. I, like most people, do not enjoy being told what to do, but, I can imagine that if you've spent the better part of your life never having to abide by the rules for others, it must be especially difficult to conform.
My biggest hope of this time is that the human connection only grows among us, which might help heal some of the divisions we have politically (the recent economic relief bill is a great example of how this is starting to happen already) and brings us together not only as a people with shared experience of global trauma, but lays the groundwork of acceptance of all people and inclusion in all frameworks of society. We will begin living more closely to those democratic ideals because there is a true threat to all people that can only be stopped by joint participation and listening to others.
Our minister then connected the feelings of anxiety and stifled behaviors of our current "quarantine" to the the feelings that people of color and other disenfranchised people must feel on a regular basis. I have been thinking the same thing, as I discuss with my friends how it's our fathers, the white male baby-boomer generation, who are having the hardest time participating within the social distancing rules. I, like most people, do not enjoy being told what to do, but, I can imagine that if you've spent the better part of your life never having to abide by the rules for others, it must be especially difficult to conform.
My biggest hope of this time is that the human connection only grows among us, which might help heal some of the divisions we have politically (the recent economic relief bill is a great example of how this is starting to happen already) and brings us together not only as a people with shared experience of global trauma, but lays the groundwork of acceptance of all people and inclusion in all frameworks of society. We will begin living more closely to those democratic ideals because there is a true threat to all people that can only be stopped by joint participation and listening to others.
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