I suspect people of faith are handling this a lot better than those without. Just my supposition, and I certainly have no statistic, or even what kind of metrics could be used to prove my point.
Someone sent me this yesterday
A while
back I read a story of a visiting pastor who attended a men’s breakfast in the
middle of a rural farming area of the country. The group had asked an older
farmer, decked out in bib overalls, to say grace for the morning
breakfast.
“Lord,
I hate buttermilk”, the farmer began. The visiting pastor opened one eye to
glance at the farmer and wonder where this was going.
The
farmer loudly proclaimed, “Lord, I hate lard.” Now the pastor was growing
concerned.
Without
missing a beat, the farmer continued, “And Lord, you know I don’t much care for
raw white flour”. The pastor once again opened an eye to glance around the room
and saw that he wasn’t the only one to feel uncomfortable.
Then
the farmer added, “But Lord, when you mix them all together and bake them, I do
love warm fresh biscuits. So Lord, when things come up that we don’t like, when
life gets hard, when we don’t understand what you’re saying to us, help us to
just relax and wait until you are done mixing. It will probably be even better
than biscuits. Amen.”
Within
that prayer there is great wisdom for all when it comes to complicated
situations like we are experiencing in the world today.
Stay
strong, my friends, because our LORD is mixing several things that we don’t
really care for, but something even better is going to come when HE is done with
it. AMEN!
As a believer, I’m using this artificially induced lockdown as a time to reflect.