Getting Used to the New Abnormal

We often hear people mentioning “the new normal,” as if we should know what that means. May I suggest that we not refer to the present state of affairs in any way as normal. It’s not, and I hope we don’t honor it with a good name.

It will never be normal to walk around outside in a mask.
It will never be normal to wear a mask in church.
It will never be normal to stand six feet from a friend.
It will never be normal to part without a handshake or hug.
It will never be normal to see cardboard cutouts in baseball stands.
It will never be normal to allow some assemblies and forbid others.
It will never be normal to be afraid to be near other people.
It will never be normal to separate teachers from their students.
It will never be normal to shut down legitimate businesses.
It will never be normal to quarantine healthy people.
It will never be normal to suppress proven treatments.
It will never be normal to silence those who challenge the narrative.
It will never be normal to treat a virus as if it were a plague.
It will never be normal to regard non-science as scientific.
It will never be normal to assume that life can be risk-free.
It will never be normal to let our loved ones die alone.

None of that means we should stop doing what we can to remain disease-free, but life is far more than physical well-being. So let’s not pretend that all this is sustainable, not to mention, normal. And may Heaven protect us from those who think it is or ever could be.

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)


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