Together

“Healing is a process”….but it sure isn’t one we like waiting on, is it?

We want to be better now.

We want things to improve now.

We want this situation to be changed now.

We want this to be over now.

In addition to all that, IF WE ARE BEING HONEST, we certainly don’t want to be inconvenienced by whatever “this” is either now~ in the present~ or later on~ in the future~ do we?

As a person with a chronic illness, I can honestly say that I wish the treatments that I have to undergo would work quicker.

I also get frustrated with the inconvenience of being immunocompromised…with trying to finagle my work schedule around my infusions – my treatments…

I also am hopeful that treatment in the present does not cause me further issues in the future.

But, healing is a process though, right?

We are living in a most unusual period of time with this COVID-19 pandemic concerns, aren’t we?

Here, in Michigan, the school systems across the state have officially been closed starting this past Monday.

NATIONWIDE, all professional sports activities have been suspended.

Concerts are being cancelled right and left.

There is an international travel ban.

Restaurants are closing to eat -inside customers.

Fear is rampant.

Anxiety is everywhere.

Uncertainty is lurking.

Panic is waiting at the threshold.

The question becomes

WILL WE LET IT IN THE DOOR AND ALLOW IT TO CONSUME US??

People are scared of the idea of contagion – enough to empty our stores of surplus – and yet are worried over cancelled sporting events, concert venues, and child care due to no school.

Many of these, especially weekday meals for kids and child care, are legit issues…but many other concerns are the inconveniences of the healing process.

As an immunocompromised RN who works in the hospital (while already battling the tail end of a two week long cold), I am concerned over how we will deal as a society if this social distancing is not effective enough.

We complain over the treatment – in this case it is PREVENTION THROUGH TEMPORARY ISOLATION – but how much more will we suffer if this illness spreads?

What do we do in the meantime??

Simply put, I cannot help but recommend Philippians 4:8

Whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable, if there is any excellence, anything worthy of praise ~THINK CONTINUALLY ON THESE THINGS.

We all have things we wish were different, but this is how things are for today.

Think on GOOD things,not on things that disappoint us.