Social Distancing
By now, everybody is familiar with the clunky, anti-septic phrase:
Social Distancing. While it's not elegant, it tells us what we need to
know. Stay away from crowds, keep your distance. For those of us in
the church, it's an especially weird thing to do.
We not only have worship services, but meetings, and visits, and so
many other activities that involve being with other people. For many of
us, that has now changed.
But how much? We anticipate this all coming to an end. Unlike some
awful Apocalyptic movie, there will be significant disruption, but no
end to civilization as we know it. Sooner or later, and I like most
everybody else pray sooner, life will resume its
normal rhythms. Perhaps people will be yearning for actual social
contact and will have grown bored with binge watching TV. Imagine a
world where social media is less important and getting together with
others takes on new importance. A crazy dream? Perhaps
not. Consider if you'd said we'd be dealing with a pandemic on January
1. You'd have been dismissed, now you'd be hailed as farsighted.
Comments
Post a Comment