Pandemic
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Sing While Washing Your Hands
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What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath-- the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center down. And when your body has become still, reach out with your heart. Know that we are connected in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) Know that our lives are in one another’s hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words. Reach out all the tendrils of compassion that move, invisibly, where we cannot touch. Promise this world your love-- for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, so long as we all shall live. 3/11/20 untitled by Lee Allison Paczullablessed are the elderly, and the immunosuppressed
blessed are the fearful, the anxious and irritable blessed are the ones who use humor to get by the ones who could use a vacation anyway the ones who fear for their life blessed are the ones who are sick of it: all the flawed logic, the security theater blessed are the ones who cry out “this is why we need a safety net! a kinder society! a new world!” blessed are the health care workers, the administrators catching heat for every decision, the messengers with no power over the message blessed are the sad, and the lonely blessed are the healthy and the sick, the well and the unwell blessed are all of us just trying to do our best blessed are those who stay kind and clear, who keep our eyes open to each other blessed is our neighbor blessed are we all blessed are we all blessed are we all. (Image above suggest by Martha House,
recreated by Rev. Matthew) |
Come, scrub your hands with me
Come, scrub your hands with me Come, scrub your hands with me That we might save humankind, And I'll bring you soap, When soap is hard to find And we'll sing a song of health And keep the damned germs confined. from "Come, Sing a Song With Me" on a day of social distancing
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