Living Through the Current Crisis

CBN had a good post about what C.S. Lewis and Martin Luther would have to say about our current coronavirus situation. Both are astute and applicable, but as a Lewis aficionado, let me quote the trenchant parts of his comments which, although about living in the era of the atomic bomb, are equally applicable today:

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

Amen. Bad stuff has happened before and it will happen again. The bottom line is none of us get out of here alive, so it's best to live each day well, secure in the knowledge that if the worst should come, God doesn't leave us or abandon us but instead ushers into a life greater than we can ask or imagine. Be sensible, but fear not. And don't hog the TP. 

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2020/march/what-c-s-lewis-martin-luther-would-say-about-our-coronavirus-panic