Weekly Roundup: Corona Questions
I commit to offering heartfelt, faith-filled reflections on our common struggle, the pandemic that is the Coronavirus. I will continue to do this until it seems that my contributions are redundant or unedifying. Here is a “roundup” of the fourth week of Coronavirus reflections. – Ryan
April 13 – April 17, 2020
Monday: A critical step to any change is concluding that the consequence (the pain!) of staying the same far outweighs the challenge (the pain!) of making necessary change. And behind that calculus is interrogating our current habits, practices, and thought patterns. How do we do that? Well, we ask hard questions of ourselves.
Tuesday: By effectively pressing “Pause” on the economy—and virtually every social gathering—we have also welcomed a significant increase in deaths due to increased violence, neglect, and ignorance. The consequences of our response to the Coronavirus are not all positive. Not by a long shot. Will we measure the “collateral damage”?
Wednesday: Are their other correlations that we aren't hearing about? Perhaps some that are more threatening to the power players, stake holders, large companies, policies, and other important entities that stand to lose if pressured?
Thursday: Looking at the post that was a shared post about a story that was about a popular person’s opinion on a story about the virus is not the same thing as working hard to inform ourselves of the mayhem we are in.
Friday: Have we built systems that build healthy people, steward land, and invest in a life-giving future, or have we built systems that prioritize something else? People of faith, people with deep hearts and yearning souls, people of conviction . . . people like us are unwilling to continue in ways like this.
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