What can we learn from COVID-19? ?

 I heard a friend give a profound insight on what God wants us to learn from Covid-19. She said she thinks our test in all of this is for God to see how we are doing on “lov[ing] our neighbor as ourselves”. That made me really think. It rang true to my heart. It hit me like a ton of bricks!

“Love one another, as I have loved you.” This is a lofty goal! It instantly resets perspective of the true reason we are here. To trying to learn to be more like & love more like Him.

If the pandemic melted away all the extras in our lives & left us with the basics, how did we do in the two fundamental commandments? Are we loving God with all our heart, might and strength? And is the litmus test of how we are doing loving God, how well we love our neighbor as ourselves?

Do we love each other— Democrat or Republican? Mask or no mask? Online school or in school? Sports or no sports? Rioter or policeman? No matter the color of our skin, no matter our religious beliefs or lack there of? It reminds me it may be the best test of how well we are becoming like He is.

Can we love each other in all our perfect diversity, difference of opinions, choices of how we live— and can we allow each other the same? We all love our free agency and our ability to choose what we think and do and value it so much...it’s everyone else’s agency we have a problem with!

I believe God is happy when we allow ourselves to be ourselves no matter what we believe and for His children to love each other. Anyway. This is my Hope for us all and my goal in this crazy 2020 in which we live.