Confinement or a return to spirituality
Anyone that is accustomed to seeing the hand of God in everything and looking for everything in His face cannot be surprised by confinement or all its consequences. On the contrary, the spiritual view of events always starts, in the first place, from its full acceptance as a mystery. To grumble about events, to complain is equivalent to the attitude of the chosen people in the desert shouting at Moses and building golden calves. Whoever complains about events is not open to the gift, but is tied to idolatry that should be let go. We are reduced to essentials: a contingent space and the people closest to those close to us - the small family. If we add to this some deprivations and fears of uncertainty, we have gathered all the ingredients of the Old Testament exodus, those that exactly confirmed the chosen people and made them return to their Lord. For those who follow Christ, this is a necessary and inevitable path. The purity of faith depends on exactly that. Confinement, therefo...