We, His creation are intuitively curious. It\u2019s not enough we\nask questions, we see the necessity of adding, \u201cwhat if\u201d to the answer. It\u2019s\nnot enough we find the foundation; we look for what the foundation is built on.\nOur life is a vision of voyage. The destination of this vision is experience,\nthe destination of this experience is life, and so it goes on and on through\nfamiliar terrain and on uncharted waters. So, what should be our response to\nthe worldwide pandemic? Let\u2019s listen to the wisdom of our hearts which tells\nus, the greatest gift is creation, without it there is nothing at all. Each of\nus is unique in body and soul. The body\u2019s greatest gift is the soul. It is ours\nto nourish and protect as we navigate this world of strife and temptation.Our connection to the divine is the triune body: the\nmother, the father and the kiss of the Holy Spirit which is our soul at the\nmoment of conception, and the reflection of the triune God. By His authority we\nare the stewards in His creation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every major religion which has become sustainable through\nthe ages believes in the sacredness of human life. The government will never be\nthe source of the best decision to be made for an individual. Governments are\ncreated out of empire building; the best decisions are made for the salvation\nof souls. So, our response to this pandemic is to save our souls by saving\ntheirs. We will do whatever it takes to protect the sanctity of human life. The\nyoung and the old, the healthy and the infirmed, the righteous and short\nsighted, the greatest among us and the inconsequential are all called to the\nbanquet at His table, all called to be stewards in His creation. Our physical\nworld is a complex arrangement of priorities; we look to our governments to\nturn this complexity into process. When this process is centered on the\nindividual we find success and harmony, when it\u2019s not we find deceit and\ndevastation. As world citizens and practicing Christians we will walk the thin\nline between what is right thinking and what is not, what is allowable and what\nisn\u2019t, what is sustainable and what ends in tragedy. In these troubled times,\nwe shouldn\u2019t look at reasonable steps to take, we should look at responsible\nsteps which will be taken; we shouldn\u2019t look at what we have done, we should\nlook at what He has done for us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We, His creation are intuitively curious. It\u2019s not enough we ask questions, we see the necessity of adding, \u201cwhat if\u201d to the answer. It\u2019s not enough we find the foundation; we look for what the foundation is built on. Our life is a vision of voyage. The destination of this vision is experience, the destination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,49,44,51,52],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-catholic-faith","tag-catholic-spirituality","tag-foundational-precepts","tag-pandemic","tag-practicing-christians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}