One of the great blessings that following Jesus and coming to know God is that the Holy Spirit helps us to know who we are. Often who we are is determined by our family and our society. We take for granted these influences and do not realize their effect on us and how we look at the world. It can influence not just the foods we eat and the music we listen to, but how we look at people who are different than we are by ethnicity, race, language, customs and even gestures.
Sheltering in place has been a blessing and a curse for so many of us. Many Lenten promises were made to reduce time on social media or technology use, only to be broken as scrolling the feeds became a way of keeping in touch, of seeing the trends of our hearts, and holding on to what sense of community we could.