WRITEON FOR JULY 15, 2020 sister alies. One of the most challenging realities is moving. I mean whether it is moving up, moving down, moving over, moving out, or just moving house, all of them require a kind of work. Usually it is a bit sweaty, the muscles need a bit of care after, and if one is moving in, it might take some weeks before the new place is habitable. A neighbor of mine has been moving out and in this week. We have tried to help her and her daughter. Being neighborly a help in moving, even at 101degrees! Oh and the most fun I was putting her packed boxes in our wheelchairs and rolling them over to her new place! I have noticed that her packing was particularly excellent. Seems she packed her boxes so that she could move them into the new room where they would go and that was going to cut down on lots of re-moving when she was in. I liked that. Each box matched. I guess other people do that too but I’d never seen it so well in action. And my point is? Well other than a real story about a real move, I’m interested in how you are doing? Are you wearing your mask and social distancing…and maybe still watching Preacher so and so on TV? God takes care of fools and children, goes the saying. There’s nothing special about us that prevents the virus from coming our way. We are not better or worse than the people who have succumbed. This virus is a part of the natural world and it intends to mutate, move in, and move us over. I felt for our Governor the other day when he pleaded with us to wear a mask. So many from the State Legislature are positive, for example. I’m trying to figure out what is so difficult about this! Get over it! Maybe you remember that story about the Prophet in the Old Testament who told the King (was it?) simply to go down to the River Jordan and wash 7x and his leprosy would go away. He thought he was nuts. Eventually he did it and he was healed. Now if the Prophet had asked him to do something really difficult…perhaps he would have believed him more quickly? I think masks are like that. How simple. When I go out, and mostly I cannot, I wear a mask to protect YOU not myself. It does help me too…but it is for the other. Have we moved in our attitudes about more deeply taking care of one another or continuing our entitled attitude that moves no one to greater charity only to the hospital, especially in a spike? BLESSINGS.
