I found myself thinking about the time before the pandemic and missing it, but not for the reason that most people would. Since the pandemic, it has become important for me to watch the news and pay attention to what is developing with the pandemic. I have been trying to find out about different guidelines, mask mandates, vaccines, etc. The problem is that along with those things, I have also been listening to all these news stories that cause me anxiety.
The worse ones are about politics. Of course the really bad ones are about all the people who believe in the conspiracies. At some point, there comes a time when a person has to distinguish between faith in an ideology and belief in a lie.
My husband and I talked about this just this past weekend. I have faith in God and I belief in Christianity, but if everything in the Bible was proven to have never happened it wouldn’t changed my faith in God. If Jesus never walked the earth and if He never died on the cross, it wouldn’t change my personal relationship with God. It wouldn’t change how I pray or the fact that I believe that God is with me every second of my life. Faith tells me that no matter the facts are deep inside of me I have a special relationship with a deity that goes beyond what can be proven by fact.
On the other hand, there can be all the conspiracy theories in the world, but there has never been one single shred of evidence to prove a single part of any of those theories. Yet, there are people who still believe. That’s isn’t faith; that is lies. In fact, to take it to its extreme that is the way evil works.
I miss the time before the pandemic because I wasn’t being exposed to all this evil. I didn’t have to see it everyday. It makes me feel like hope is starting be lost in our world. There’s two things that I hold on to. First, there’s always been evil in the world and somehow we survive. God sees us through it Second, God tells us that as long as there are believers, then there will be hope. Tonight I pray for hope.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
I miss the days before the pandemic because
