Please.

It doesn’t matter your job title, the brand of car you drive, your pedigree, education, tax bracket or the level of your beauty. This is an equal inopportunity virus and situation. No one person is better than the other or immune to hardship. The regular rules of American society matter not in this pandemic, this national crisis. Everyone hurts in some way. In one way or another, it’s injury in the first-degree for everyone.

Please, I beg us, as a society to please put off pretense or pride. Let’s shed the strange social games that dictate to whom we say, “hello,” in the grocery store, who we choose to share our smile with or who we thank for a kind gesture. We have a commonality called “the human condition.” Unfortunately, we have found it hard to just be human for some time. I sincerely hope we have learned through this. Let us never again position our noses at a certain angle based on the size of our house.

Hopefully, we are all learning that it is by the grace of God that we have anything. Like with Jonah, God can even take away our shade if He likes. The sooner we learn that we are all beggars, the better our country will be for all. 

Lord, Give us eyes to see, ears to hear and hearts to feel the love you have for us and for others. Help us lavish others with love and kindness, as you do, never again shrewdly withholding it out of pride… in Jesus’ Name.