We’ve made it through an Easter Sunday like no other we have experienced and hopefully will never experience again.
Stay at home orders kept worshipers from attending Easter Sunday services on what is the holiest day of the year for Christians. Many families decided to abandon plans for big Easter family meals together because of social distancing guidelines.
Many used Zoom or other social media platforms to get together virtually instead. I suspect one topic of conversation at those gatherings was how soon terms like “social distancing” will things we talk about in the past tense and when we may be able to live our lives the way we want to once again. Many people, including me, have had our first experience in the past week wearing a mask while shopping for groceries. We probably spent less than we would have because I wasn’t able to smell all of the products we were passing by in the store. It’s a new normal we’re all living because of the Corona Virus Pandemic, and I know I join all of you in hoping that it will be just a temporary one. That’s the way I see it.