Healing Our Division

Perhaps the most laughable line in the poem, "In the Time of Pandemic," is the one that imagined COVID as a time when we would experience "the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways." Regardless of where people came down on the questions of masks, lockdowns, vaccines, and mandates, COVID has often brought out the worst in us, rather than the best, whether in online or in person, whether in the public square or around our own dinner tables. Where is God in the midst of our relational tension? And how can we make it through all of the frustration with each other that has come with COVID?