Healthy Relationships
are critical for the creation and maintenance of mental health.
Limiting social contacts may slow the transmission of a disease but it still causes great societal harm.
This is an important lesson we should all understand and appreciate now that the lockdown days of the first pandemic are in the rear view mirror.
I understand the desire to believe that masks protect us but the evidence is clear, they don’t stop the transmission of respiratory illness — the colds and flus we have experienced our entire lives.
It isn’t that viruses don’t cause harm, they can, but attempting to “cure” them through pharmaceutical promises that lack truthful informed consent should be respectfully declined.
Instead, let’s get out in the sun more and eat healthy foods.
Please stay home if you don’t feel well.
Let’s return to doing all the things good mothers used to advise us when we were kids.
Finally, we need a healthy dose of human contact daily with those we care about and who care about us.
It’s more important in my book than attempting to avoid illness at all costs.
Let love be genuine.
Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Love one another with brotherly affection.
Outdo one another in showing honor.
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Live in harmony with one another.
Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.
Never be wise in your own sight.
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.