Cory mentions the facebook post of a
friend who addressed concerns about “shaming people” into not agreeing with
individual choices. Some people are
designed to be social even though others may feel comfortable with staying at
home. Some people feel the need to open
non-essential employment in oeder to make a living. At the same time there are many employed front-line
workers who would gladly trade places with the unemployed in order to get a
break. There are valid reasons that
others have for social distancing or choosing not to. There are valid reasons for choosing to stay at
home. There are those who believe
wearing a mask is connected with saving lives. Mask wearers may feel annoyed
with ones who don’t. And yet not all of
these non-mask wearers are selfish, self-centered or ignorant. Many of them view the mask wearers as the
ones who are ignorant and self-absorbed.
Another post gave an example of
ignorance with safety issues expressing the inhumanity of others who are so
busy with their masks and social distancing that they overlook others who may
needs assistance – such as elderly people at a supermarket who may not be
steady on their feet, lose their balance and fall. Does anybody rescue the one who falls? Is the rescuer wearing a mask or not? It doesn’t seem possible to help an
individual to his/her feet while maintaining social distancing. When we attempt to follow the law to the
letter, we often forget about our fellow beings. Aren’t they more important? We can’t just blindly wear our mask and look
away. What would Jesus do? I think he’d wear a mask, but he would also
come to the rescue of whoever needs it – social distancing or not.
A quote from her post says: “You
cannot continue to harden your heart to the peple around you, just so you feel
a little safer today. Because that
safety is a fallacy.”
She
closed her post with quotes from scriptures as a simple reminder of where our
priorities should be.
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| dailyverses.net |
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| thedome.org |
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I love this quote from one of my
brother’s posts: “Compassion is a key,
not just for the people we are trying to protect and save from the virus, but
also for the ones we don’t understand and who may require saving from other insidious
difficulties. . . . when I make assumptions or judgments about [other people]
perhaps it is me who is being unkind and self-centered.”
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from spirit science quotes
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