Things often fall apart before they come together… in a new and better way.
I know life looks crazy now, but consider this.
If there’s an infected wound, it must be cleaned first before it can heal properly.
There is a silver lining to our current time of changes, from a virus that put the world in quarantine to Black Lives Matter protests to a damaged economy and upcoming elections.
Time will reveal more of what that lining looks like after a much needed, overdue cleaning.
The clarion call to respect life is finally being heard. What’s a life worth? Let’s put things in perspective.
Respect life of those who are more susceptible to a virus or reopen an economy? Do older lives matter? I watched the Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick say that older people should be willing to give up their lives for the sake of young people’s economy.
I read about a saddened college student because of Covid. He couldn’t graduate, get a job and had to live with his parents. I thought about the movie I’d seen earlier this year, 1917, when men his age were getting blown apart in WWI. Not for months, but for over four years.
For centuries, the cries and despair of slaves and black people have been ignored by white people and others who are privileged. Then came the tipping point where enough is enough. Actually, it’s been more than enough for too long of a time.
The process of change and healing often is messy.
Have you ever cleaned a room, or anything, and partway through the process found it looked even messier than when you began? Stuff got moved around, some piled up to be discarded. But then a reorganization shifted the environment to something better.
As we watch this time of change, remember that all of us have things to learn personally and collectively during challenging times.
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