The following letter testifies a turn of events on our planet. And a major shift in our human consciousness. It feels as if Covid-19 is turning our life on Earth upside down. As if someone hit a “pause” button, to make us stop and observe, think, and reflect. Maybe for just as long as it will take for us to get the message? Read this:
“Yes there is fear.
Yes there is isolation.
Yes there is panic buying.
Yes there is sickness.
Yes there is even death.
But, they say that in Wuhan, after so many years of noise, You can hear the birds again.
They say that after just a few weeks of quiet, the sky is no longer thick with fumes. But blue, and grey, and clear.
They say that in the streets of Assisi, people are singing to each other across the empty squares, keeping their windows open, so that those who are alone may hear the sounds of family around them.
They say that a hotel in the West of Ireland is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound.
Today, a young woman I know is busy spreading fliers with her number through the neighbourhood. So that the elders may have someone to call on.
Today, churches, synagogues, mosques and temples are preparing to welcome and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary.
All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting.
All over the world people are looking at their neighbours in a new way.
All over the world people are waking up to a new reality.
To how big we really are.
To how little control we really have.
To what really matters.
To Love.
So we pray and we remember that:
Yes there is fear.
But there does not have to be hate.
Yes there is isolation.
But there does not have to be loneliness.
Yes there is panic buying.
But there does not have to be meanness.
Yes there is sickness.
But there does not have to be disease of the soul.
Yes there is even death.
But there can always be a rebirth of love.
Wake to the choices you make as to how to live now.
Today, breathe.
Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic.
The birds are singing again.
The sky is clearing.
Spring is coming.
And we are always encompassed by Love.
Open the windows of your soul.
And though you may not be able to touch across the empty square,
Sing.”
~ Fr. Richard Hendrick
What is this letter telling us?
Maybe,
Coronavirus = Noah's ark of our time, only that "Noah" is now our human consciousness.
Coronavirus = A vaccine from our “mother nature” that blows us free from a self-destructive form of life we have grown accustomed to — a lifestyle that threatens our continued existence on Earth.
Coronavirus = Not the end of the world, but a chance for us humans to save our continued existence on Earth – because the severe issues we are facing will never get resolved until we come together as humans again. Maybe with the lessons we will gain from Covid-19, we can indeed meet as humans again and overcome our grand challenges together as a humankind?
Coronavirus = The chance for our children to have a perspective for a future again?
If any of this is true, then we ought to consider it a great gift.
This situation feels a bit like dying, yet also like a birth into a completely different life. A post-Coronavirus life.
In that future lifetime, maybe we will remember Covid-19 as “the pandemic that transformed humanity?”
Maybe Covid is delivering us the most tangible proof that there is more in this world for us than chasing after money and time – both of which distress us greatly, and even make us sick. Yet these concepts really only exist in our human brains.
If I may dare to dream, then Covid-19 will give the world a universal language that everyone can understand. A language that will bring us together as one human species again. A language that everyone comprehends immediately, regardless of their religion, gender, skin color, or geographical location. A “universal language” that will connect us back in our roots: Our consciousness as a human species. With a healthy humility toward our greatest Queen and partner on this planet: Our Mother Nature.
Covid-19 may be showing us now: We can't pretend anymore. We have to accept who we are on this planet — underneath our titles, make-up and cologne. Everything that doesn’t belong to us in terms of who we really are as humans on Planet Earth is being discarded. In a heart beart. It’s that simple. Possibly it’s for our own best, looking at our future. And thus, really … maybe just good common sense.
— Annegret Hannawa