A thought about the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantine-this plague and a god-plan

Just like everyone using this time to catch up on old friends, I had just gotten off the phone with a friend. We had discussed all the stress COVID-19 brought with it, how it affected jobs and those who were already looking for a way to survive before this. I myself had pointed out how concerned I was about life after COVID-19; if there would even be an after. But I couldn’t help but parallel this period with Biblical narratives that held didactic value to me.

We spend 12 hours a day plowing for the bottom line- the super fast economy, this microwave-ready food age. We hardly have time to do anything. Even the little time that’s available to practice presence, we use that to take food photos for the gram. Everything for great numbers. Maybe …just maybe we need to slow down and this was the ‘universe’s’ way to slow us down. The universe’s way of saying ‘Enough! Go to your room!’.

The Jewish book talks about a time when man had one singular focus. They were performing a fit no one had ever done at the time — building a tower that would reach the heavens. The scripture talks about how God realized that man could accomplish anything they put their hands to do. So he disrupted them. He made them speak in different languages. That caused confusion, making man abandon his project- to figure out how to communicate again.

Maybe this is God? Or is it?