I haven't written here since 2017. Early in 2018 I moved house and with the turmoil of that I put my pen away. It has taken the world disaster of the corona virus to tempt me back. As I am over seventy and living in Britain I am quarantined at present. Of course, this means I have plenty of time to come back to my blog. How did you react to the news? Did you panic and buy vast quantities of loo rolls? Haven't you heard of soap and warm water? That will do the job nicely! Buying mountains of food just leads to waste. At first I was very anxious about the situation, but once I reminded myself that God, as ever, is in control no matter what privations we have to go through. In fact God is saying to us that all those things we thought were so precious to us are meaningless if we have left Him out of our lives. Now He has given us lots and lots of time to ponder what really matters in life and that is our relationship with God which can only happen in and through Jesus our Lord. If you trust in Him nothing else matters. Give it some thought.
When something very nasty comes our way we can only take in some much of the horror of the situation and then our minds protect us by putting us into a state of denial. It's all very well sitting cozy in the middle of a storm, but by doing that you can put others at risk. It is tempting to think that the corona virus situation is not real and won't touch you and your family, to think that somehow the heads of state who appeared so lately to be at loggerheads are in fact manufacturing the whole thing for their own purposes. Just see how the mind wants to divert us from the awful truth. Do you realize we could be on the point of the total collapse of civilization? That's why people panic buy because inside they realize food production and distribution could break down. Of course the little store they have been able to stash away will not last long. Deny us our food and we turn into much nastier human beings, well no that's the way we always were but this brings out...
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