Isolated yes...alone NO. We are all in this together, Corona bringing out the bad in people but the best too!

The World is together in our separation...6 feet is the closest we can be to another outside of the people we live with. I look at the statistics of new cases every morning...see Italy's number soaring along with America...and than look at NY's numbers as they are basically seeing numbers that most Countries aren't even seeing. I know the numbers mean people who are sick and some who have died...in my head. But this past Sunday, as I was live streaming Passion City Church in Atlanta, a bunch of people were posting where they were watching from. All over this country people were tuning in and I smiled. But one post stopped me, and choked me up for some reason. "I am watching from Italy" with a little Italian Flag next to it. Her name was Christina. I quickly wrote..."we are praying for you" and she wrote back..."we need it and we are also praying for America"  I started to see more and more countries join the live stream and I cried. Romania...England...etc. We really are all in this together. Later that day, I saw pictures of school children in Madagascar, a country that has not been touched by this disease, standing in front of maps of the world. They were laying hands on different countries and praying for them!! Children!!...thinking about the world that is sick and praying for their safety and healing and comfort. 

I think I understand how the Grinch felt when his heart grew that day. "It came without ribbons, it came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags." (or toilet paper)

Yes...he was talking about Christmas, but I have seen a unity in the world,  whether someone getting on their roof and leading everyone in exercise. Or the Balcony concert in Italy with singing and people who had instruments playing. I saw how a neighborhood got together for an 11 year old's birthday in Atlanta...they drove by his house with happy birthday signs on their cars to make the day special for him. A boy getting Bar Mitzvah in Israel with Well Wishers on Balconies when he came out of the synagogue. A son came to a Retirement community that his mom was at. He set up an amplifier and microphone outside the facility, and sang and played for his mom and others looking on from their windows. The Entertainment community, led by Jennifer Garner is reading books online for kids, Musicians are playing and singing online to entertain us staying at home as they stay at home too.  We need to be THESE people...praying, caring, singing to lift up others. Even if the toilet paper DOES run out, or if we are sadly eating beans and rice 4 times a week. Instead of looking around and seeing what we don't have and how much we are missing...lets sing instead, lets pray for someone else instead, lets think of ways we can give instead. 

We really are all in this together...let's leave this experience better people than we came in it as! 

Be safe!