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This Dark Night of the Soul
The world and everyone in it is facing a test unlike any it has seen before
“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
“This is not a test.” It’s what you hear when a siren goes off, an alarm sounds or an emergency alert beeps on your cell phone. It means that, whatever the situation is, it’s serious, it’s dangerous, and if you want to survive, you’d better follow instructions.
The COVID-19 crisis is not a test in the sense of drill meant to prepare, but it is a test of our character, faith, and resilience.
The arrival of COVID-19, like so many critical events in world history, was not accompanied by fanfare. No searchlights scanned the skies for danger, sirens were silent, and soldiers didn’t take to the streets.
There was just a subtle awareness that grew with each day, each report, each statistic, that we were in serious trouble.
The last time the Earth stood still
On September 11, 2001, when two planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City, the situation was similar. The decades-long practice of interrupting our “regularly scheduled broadcasting” to test the emergency alert system appears…
