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The New-New Normal?
“What if it’s the there
This entry was posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes and tagged coronavirus, courage, fear, future, G.K. Chesterton, Galatians 5:26, normal, overcoming. Bookmark the permalink.
Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal.
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all good…
that poem particularly….
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I like to consider “normal” and “Normalcy” as false words – with over 7 billion human lives and billions more animal lives, categorizing what life should be considered as “normal” is not only impossible, but inhibits us from being ourselves. The words I like to use in place of normal are happy, content, peaceful, confident, and determined. With those words, we don’t need to feel normal in order to be happy and peaceful. We can just be happy and peaceful. Hope you are well and safe as the world starts to reopen, Mitch! God Bless
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Thanks, Papa, you too!
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Good advice!
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And how about this one?
“There’s no normal life, Wyatt. There’s just life.” Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
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Love it!
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Especially like Helen Keller’s take. If anyone could teach us about overcoming what seems impossible it would be her.
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Indeed!
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Love Eugene Peterson’s take on Galatians 5:26. Originals ARE more interesting than clones, and appreciating the originality of another (as opposed to envying or criticizing) is much more pleasant.
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And yet, I still long for my own version of normal, as illusive as it may have been.
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I totally get that, Liz.
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What’s “normal” partly depends upon where you live on the globe, and upon where on the economic ladder you reside.
That said, I’ll add this: We need an effective vaccine ASAP!
Hi Mitch. Take care.
Neil S.
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Now THAT would be a new normal we’d ALL be happy with!
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Joy comes in the morning!
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Wow, profound thoughts, Mitch. Thanks for sharing.
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Reblogged this on Rhemalogy and commented:
My guest blog
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When I reblogged to my website the transposition was not good. Am going to have to figure out a way to edit it because I could not do it from my site. Hope to have the reparation done before Sunday.
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Well, you’re ahead of the curve. No worries!
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Those are interesting quotes! For me, the normal I hope to attain (not sure if it was there in the first place) is a reality that has much less fear and judgement, and a lot more hope and compassion. I find it in individual interactions, but not so much on the news and social media.
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Likewise, Ann. In both cases.
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I love all the quotes. Very inspiring and what a lovely poem. Thank you for sharing. Happy Thursday! Stay safe.
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Thank you, Anita, you too.
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Welcome Mitch.
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Maybe “normal” is just a word we cling to when we are not comfortable with change. Everybody seems to be discussing the “new normal” on the internet, which would have been science fiction 50 years ago.
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wow profound thoughts
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One day, Mitch, the air will calm, free of the Fever of disease and distress. We will return to the routines of regular life, the noises of civilization, and will one day speak not of struggle against a pandemic or revolt against injustice, but of deliverance from that which afflicts us.
But there will be no new normal, not in the sense that there should be. Those that remains after the pandemic has passed and the violence has abated will release from within themselves a long-drawn sigh of delight that their assessment of their invincibility and immortality remains what it ever was. This illusion will be our strength and our innocence our shield. We cannot believe in the possibility of death by virus or violence can ever happen to us, for wouldn’t that make life absurd? Injustice and outrage and the basic unfairness of chance and circumstance are part of the human experience as much as they seem absurd and an antithesis to life.
What is normal is that despite everything there are more things to be thankful than not. What is normal is that there is no final Victory, only the record of what had to be done to get to the place where we now are. What is normal is that there is a never-ending struggle against fear and fate. Joy is always in peril, afflictions are always personal, and life itself is always fleeting. The plague always returns and pain always resurfaces, but while we remember why we live and show others that their lives matter to us, then the struggle has meaning. And that is a normal I can embrace.
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Me too, Adam.
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