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Present tense. Future still unwritten. by JOEY GARCIA
@AskJoeyGarcia
COVID-19 attacked our physical, mental Think safe relating, not social and financial health through the loss distancing: Paul Gilbert, a clinical of loved ones, favored routines and psychologist at the University of Derby employment. But staying at home also in England, thinks anxiety is heightened meant we were present when video of by the term, “social distancing.” He George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis suggests “safe relating” as a reminder police flooded our screens. that we’re adjusting how we connect. The centuries-long acceptance of Embrace the wrinkles in time: Don’t discrimination, inequality and stateknow what day it is? Welcome to sanctioned killing of people of color Kairos, or what the ancient Greeks finally eclipsed the bright lies called God’s Time. If you’ve America tells itself. We lived by worshiping the are not a country where clock, Kairos can heal anyone can succeed that addiction. Allow Let’s choose through hard work, an hour to flow into a education and day and a day into a change. By healing personal sacrifice. week. In the process ourselves and working Instead, options you will rebalance together, we can construct are stacked your internal clock, against many. balancing your body, a new world that is Today, mind and spirit. beautiful, honest and protestors are Tithe for justice: inclusive. holding the line and Religious organizations telling authorities encourage congregants how high to jump. to tithe to fund clergy and Here’s how to prepare for business operations. Consider the new world: tithing to GoFundMe accounts If you’re white, stop virtue signaling: benefiting the families of George Floyd, The best way to be an ally isn’t your Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Facebook post: “50 Ways White People others. Or donate to bail funds, the Can End Racism.” It’s to admit what Innocence Project and Fight Fair. you’ve done wrong, ask for forgiveness Change the face of God: Protestors and change. You can do that best have toppled statues of racist leaders. by regularly attending diversity and Should religions also examine their inclusion workshops. Face and excise contribution to racism? By promoting your behaviors that contribute to racism. images of a Middle Eastern savior Reading is nice, but a book only advances or virgin as Caucasian, for example, knowledge. It doesn’t help you develop certain religions embed the collective the wisdom to understand how you unconscious with the notion that divine personally contribute to racism or how beings are white. The damage created to stop. And, please don’t ask people of outweighs any argument for maintaining color what you should do to end racism. the status quo. Shoulder that burden yourself. The present moment may feel tense, Unmask your ego: A mask might but only because the future is unknown. protect you against COVID-19, although Let’s decide what the future holds. Let’s it’s useless against self-righteousness choose change. By healing ourselves about wearing a mask. Wear a mask and working together, we can construct because it’s practical for you. A a new world that is beautiful, honest psychologically and spiritually healthy and inclusive. Ω person doesn’t need to prove moral superiority.
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