Are You Like Spilled Salt & Glitter?
Sparkle all You want from your own space....This morning while having a chat with a dear friend in Italy.
We were discussing how blessed we currently feel. We both have our health, a
home and space to walk safely even though there are restraints. Anxiety and
fear are high for many right now.
Freedom in our country is a most valuable and wonderful
thing. It is something that in many never experience in some places on earth. It is
because of its spectacular value and importance that we covet it with such
strong convictions. Are strong ideals and open speech combined with our freewill
granted by God create a sense of strong will, determination, sass and entitlement. This could
be why in other nations we are not thought of fondly. This is the foundation by
which we were founded and have continued to prosper.
In my lifetime and certainly not in my children’s lifetime we
have never been asked to do something of such great magnitude as a mass quarantine,
against our will. Our neighbors are fearful of losing what they hold dear. They
are afraid for their health, their safety and their freedom to speak and
choose.
Our freedom while of epic value and not to be taken for
granted or squandered is also something that stands in the way of creating us
great loss right now.
We have within our power the supplies (if we do not
consume with greed), the space, the shelter and the medical care to ride out
this storm.
We have been championed by other places in the world for our
swift actions and the ability to stop the current issue in its tracks. We started out ahead of the game, with potential to nip things in the bud but are losing ground quickly. So why
is this so hard?
The reason is because we have freedom.
Our virtue has become our vice.
Freedom is a wonderful thing. Right now our freedom to do
what we choose, when we choose and how we wish, is being threatened.
This is a temporary inconvenience, but our fear responses are on high alert and
many of us just can’t comply. Many are staying home; their fear is telling them
to hide in their burrows till mamma bear calls the all clear. The rest are running around like town crier
and leaving an invisible but very damaging mess in their footprints.
Have you ever spilled salt or glitter and tried to clean it
up; Only to find particles for days or months afterwards? Our quarantine is like this, we are being
asked to stay in our containers for a bit, so we don’t leave particles behind
for others to find. No matter how careful you are or how much you clean
something that involves glitter; there is almost always a few pieces here and there
that get stuck to other things.
Nobody wants to lose their freedom or be told what to do but
here’s the catch none of us want to lose anything… not our jobs, homes, cars, food,
possessions, security or most of all our most cherished... our loved ones.
We must trust. Trust is a hard thing for most of us; even me, but we have to right now.
If you can’t believe the news sources or your
own wisdom; ask a friend who is a doctor or nurse, ask someone you know in
another country, ask God. Your medical friends
may tell you that yes, the threat is real, your friends in other countries will
agree but they know that allowing others to do their jobs is paramount.
Ask God…
if you apply your faith we are taught above all else to “Trust in Him” and to “Have
faith”.
Friends I am asking you to stay home for your safety, for
the welfare of others and to allow this short few weeks to be a cleansing
period and a time of renewal with our families and with God.;
After all it is
Lent. Its this not living the season with gusto?
Nobody is taking your freedom today. We are asking you to sacrifice
for a short while for the better good. Unless everyone follows the rules, we
are like spilled salt or glitter that just keeps showing up stuck to something
when you don’t want it there.
Sure, it hurts to disinfect or stitch up a bad wound. It hurts even more if it gets infected and you have to lance it or worse
remove the limb. Temporary pain for gain is the answer here.
The current situation has no room for even a single grain of
salt left out to be found or we will start cleaning up this mess repeatedly.
Demanding or taking freedom or using free will when you are placing others
at grave risk isn’t freedom at all: it is simply displacing your inconvenience on others and
creating a greater possible heartache for someone else.
The longer we refuse to quarantine ourselves the longer this
will take. So we can do this calmly while we are all mostly safe, healthy and have supplies or
we can keep the particles showing up for months and wait until there is nothing.
Please stay home unless you are a person of absolute need (law,
medical personal etc.) The more tightly closed you keep your container (just immediate
family if possible) the better and faster this will be over.
My son and good friend both physicians, fear that because some
of us can’t play by the rules, they will cost others great loss, much greater than
most can imagine. Both have stated this could go on for months unless people
pay attention to the warnings.
There will be time to spread your salty sparkle around…. this
is not that time!
Stay home and place your trust in God
Micheline Edwards © 2020
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