Thoughts on 59 days on quarantine.
"The continuing and growing COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity for soul-searching and self-examination, the kind of personal reflection that refines faith, strengthens character, and “increases our humility before the Lord,” said, Elder Holland.
'This is a rare time of enforced solitude when we don’t have a lot of trivia or superficial busyness distracting us from considering the truly important things in life,” said the member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “Such times invite us to look into our soul and see if we like what we see there.'
Elder Holland spoke to the Church News on March 28 as millions of Latter-day Saints worldwide respond to government mandates aimed to flatten the spread of the coronavirus that has caused illness and death, stifled economies, closed schools, and curtailed daily routines across the globe. In response to the pandemic, Church leaders have suspended meetings, closed temples, and transported thousands of missionaries to their home countries.
The result is a “kind of mandatory Sabbath—a time when we step away from our normal routine, from life as usual, and consider our dependence on God and the blessings from Him we so often take for granted,” said Elder Holland.
Quoting a favorite British phrase, he reassured the Church News audience that “things are going to ‘come right.’ They are undoubtedly on their way to ‘coming right’ already. But we owe it to our Father in Heaven to be a little more grateful, a little more thankful, and a little more inclined to remember how many problems are resolved because of God, angels, covenantal promises, and prayer.”
Con amor,
Vero
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