This is a stress-inducing airport picture, but coronavirus is a stress-inducing event. The question is what Cloud Quakers can do. At a time when many Quaker meetings are going online, we've already been online for some time. At a time when people ask how online worship is different from in-person worship, we can answer the question, if we're here, and if people ask.
The coronavirus brings a whole new dimension to the stress of the average person just trying to get by in this world. School is out, but we have no daycare; restaurant business dries up, and we have to survive for a while with no money; needing social interaction, we are told to avoid it at all costs. What can we say? We rely on our Quaker spirit to survive the rough times. We survived the Depression, and we can survive this as well, I'm sure.
My heart goes out to those who are separated from aging parents; for those who are struggling with little or no income; for those for whom this has brought interminable suffering. May this be only a short chapter, and a new dawn bring light to a world that seems plunged in darkness.
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