So, as if we collectively didn’t have enough to worry about from COVID-19, political strife, social unrest, and the weird gradual dismantling of the postal service, those of us who live in the Golden State now get to deal with (bum bum bum) apocalyptic-looking fire skies.
The whole premise of this blog is that no matter how weird things get out there, life goes on. So here’s how to help life go on even as the very air we breathe is looking unsettlingly WRONG:
Even if, God forbid, you have to evacuate your area, life goes on. I spent three quarters of my vacation in August in an evacuee camp, and it’s astonishing how resilient people really are. Some kept working as much as they could under the circumstances. Since most of my particular camp was elderly, I was impressed by how they managed to find things to do to keep themselves positively occupied even as their homes were threatened. The truth is that when things get traumatizingly crazy, it’s more important than ever that life go on. We do not carry on despite the world’s insanity, but because of it. Early in the pandemic, I wrote about the importance of clinging to shreds of normal. As things get increasingly strange, we need those shreds of normal more than ever. These things help us carry on and deal with the shock of change by helping us cling to the things that don’t change.
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AuthorJillian Lutes is the youth pastor at West Covina Hills Seventh-day Adventist Church. Archives
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