Abby McCloskey, Dallas Morning News, March 22, 2020

“We enter Lent more deeply this year. Some religious leaders have suggested that the coronavirus might be from God. I am no priest, but I believe this is a dangerous road. Bad things happen around us all the time: cancer, suicide, broken families, tornadoes, war, senseless violence. The world is fallen. Disaster randomly and chaotically strikes like a snow globe being shaken, and us within. The promise of the Gospel is that God gives us power, peace, love and wisdom in the midst of the chaos, in the midst of our difficulties. To our chaos, God gives order and meaning and purpose and power.

The church calendar is a beautiful display of this, with its rhythms of sacrifice and celebration all predictable and timebound, providing sense when things around us are senseless.”