COVID-19

Earlier this week the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 Flu a global pandemic spanning all continents. Government leaders all around the world are publishing policy and structural responses to protect their citizenry. This is commendable and should be supported to the extent that it helps the world fight the disaster. Nonetheless, insurance companies are unlikely to compensate anyone for what they consider to be an Act of God they cannot account for in the physical dimension. 

All the military might of the governments of men, legislation and policy framework seem helpless in the face of crumbling economic activity, a discouraged populace and an unseen enemy. Closing borders does not stop the blessings of the sun, the wind and the rain on the earth. The fact that we are all locked in on this orb of earth means that none of us can escape a tragedy that befalls a neighbor. One country may be at loggerheads with another, but neither of them can leave the earth. We are all related. 

Our solution is in our resolution to work together to overcome this pestilence. Let us borrow from the wisdom of the chronicles of men in their engagement with God to call upon heaven to act on our behalf. This argument may not have an equivalent in terms of academic conversion, but it is not foolishness to ask for help to address what befalls you. Let us pray, as we act, that this too shall pass.