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, therefore, brought us this enormous opportunity to let go of everything that is not of God and does not lead to Him, which includes a certain illusion of virtue-based more on worship practices than on the incessant search for His face from the face of the brothers, “for whoever does not love his brother, whom he sees, cannot love God, whom he does not see.” (1 John 4:20)
Our golden calves may well be an idea of ​​God that we take for granted (when God will always be for us, creatures, essentially mystery), a domain of God that we take for granted or some practices that we consider sanctifying in themselves (the which is nothing but idolatry).
This is, therefore, the opportune time to let ourselves be looked after by God and to cleanse ourselves of everything that is not of Him. As in our homes, it is about taking out, throwing away, just keeping the essentials. There is much that is not essential in our life of faith and this is a good time to evaluate it.
It will be quite evident where we put our greatest energies, where our priorities are, what are the erosions of our routines. We will see well where our treasure is because there is also our heart.
If we live only for God and for Him, we will find Him everywhere: in the air that we breathe, in the sun and moon, in the trees, in the rain and the flowers, in the face of our husband | wife and of each of the children, because effectively “in Him we live, and we move, and we exist”. And we will see how far we are from being “meek and humble” like Christ, the only Model. And poor. And merciful.
In returning to sacramental life after the time of trial, let us be others receiving Christ. In the meantime, let us make more and more space for Him, removing all that is a hindrance to His presence in us.