Covid-19 ‘s Spiritual Lessons ….Awakens Humanity

People , governments , Countries , the whole globe ….. all are dynamically busy with different life affairs …..good ….and…evil. But there was a break …. a stop …. a silence. As a human ….. have you took a while with yourself ..wandering…what is happening ?

There is fear. There is isolation. There is panic buying. There is sickness . There is even death. But they say in Wuhan after so many years of noise, people can hear the birds again. After just a few weeks of quiet, the sky is no longer thick with fumes, but blue and grey and clear. The streets of Assisi people are singing to each other across the empty squares, keeping their windows open, so that those who are alone may hear the sounds of family around them. A hotel in the west of Ireland is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound. Today, in the West, a young woman I know is busy spreading flyers with her number through the neighborhood so that the elders may have someone to call on. Today, churches, synagogues, mosques and temples are preparing to welcome and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary. All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting. All over the world people are looking at their neighbors in a new way. All over the world people are waking up to a new reality. To how big we really are. To how little control we really have. To what really matters. To love. So we pray and we remember that …yes, there is fear, but there does not have to be hate. Yes,……. there is isolation, but there does not have to be loneliness. yes,….. there is panic buying, but there does not have to be meanness. Yes,…. there is sickness, but there does not have to be disease of the soul. yes, ……there is even death, but there can always be a rebirth of love. Wake to the choices you make as how to live now. Today breathe. Listen. Behind the factory noises of your panic the birds are singing again. The sky is clearing. Spring is coming, we are always encompassed by love. Open the windows of your soul and though you may not be able to touch across the empty square,…… Sing.