There was once a planet full of people.
Each rushing around and only caring about themselves. Worried about what they were going to wear, where they were going to eat, what they were going to drink. They complained about their jobs, about going to school. Their schedules were filled each day with no time to rest and very little time to spend with their loved ones.
The people’s hearts were hard. They thought the world owed them something, instead of asking themselves what they could do to help their world.
The people were arguing and trying to shout their way into changing other people’s minds. There was great division among them. They argued over trivial things like what shade of blue the sky was, to more serious topics like politics, sexual orientation and religion. They tried to get everyone to see things their own way, from their point of view. It was not done with love. It was done by name calling and being very rude to each other. It caused much strife among the people.
Their planet itself was sick. It was full of pollution and decay.
So, their planet made a choice for them.
The God of the Universe allowed His greatest enemy to unleash a sickness the planet had never seen before.
It was a very contagious virus. The older people were in much danger. People were dying from this virus.
Schools began to close. The governments of the planet ordered the people to stay at home. Some did, some didn’t. The virus continued to spread and kill.
People were spreading this virus without knowing they were infected. Some felt fine and would go and visit elderly friends and family, or people with suppressed immune systems and unknowingly infect them with the virus. Their loved ones would get the virus and most had to be hospitalized and put on ventilators. Soon, the hospitals ran out of sick beds and ventilators and the Doctors and Nurses had to decide which patients would live and which patients would die.
Businesses were forced to shut down to stop the spread of the virus. People were worried about where their next paycheck would come from.
The stores ran out of essential supplies because the people were buying too much at a time for the stores to keep up with . The people were still only thinking of themselves.
Then one day, after many many people around the planet had died, the people decided stay home. When they would go out to shop for groceries, they would take only what they needed and saved the rest for others.
They began spending time with their children and partners and reaching out to family members and neighbors to make sure they were okay.
The people thought less and less of just themselves and began to focus on others.
The planet healed and the virus disappeared.
The people came out of their homes. They appreciated their jobs. They hugged their family tighter, knowing the memories made from this time will be told for generations to come.
The people continued to love each other and their planet. When disagreements would come up, they helped each other understand.
The people asked themselves each day, not what can the world do for me, but WHAT CAN I do for the world?
Verses of Hope:
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost- Luke 19:10
Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall were drink? or What shall we wear? – Matthew 6:25-31
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. – Mark 30-31
Love,
Tahnee XO
This.. you said it all.
Thank you! Peace, Tahnee.
I know God is going to get us through this. I pray that people open their eyes and love one another again. If God be for us who can be against us. Greater is He in us than he that is in the world.