Here and Now

I want the corona virus to be over with, I really do.

But I admit I worry about what will happen after the epidemic is over.

Will we forget these moments?

Forget how our country has worked together to help each other?

Forget common courtesy and how easily germs spread, especially to those most vulnerable?

Will kids be sent to school for perfect attendance even though they have a cold?

Will people wish they weren't so busy after having this time of not being busy at all?

Will there be sadness that the kids are gone when they go back to school?

Don't wish this time away yet. Pray the evil virus away, but not the time.

We've been given this time for a reason.

How is the time we have now, going to change our way of thinking? 

Our way of praying?

Our way of acting?

Thank you to those on the front lines- those who are courageously taking care of people with the virus. 

Pray for those with the virus, pray for those who have no one to help them or to pray for them.

Hopefully, we never have to experience this kind of tragedy again in our lives.
But hopefully we can all learn from it and grow because of it.

Mother Mary, Pray for us!