Friend,
March of 2020 the landscape of relational interaction was struck by a major earthquake. Isolation has both created and uncovered interpersonal relational issues in nearly all relationships.
Marital relationships have perhaps had the worst time with it. Proving once again, that if you don’t deal with your issues, marriage will uncover them for you. Over 782K unhappy married couples chose resolution through the dissolution of their union.
To make matters worse, the whole of the US population began to experience the effects of forced isolation through symptoms of anxiety, depression, fear, panic attacks and loneliness.
This whole COVID mess is also riding on the back of a popular way of life where emotions are ruling over reason. This has led to our disgusting and irrational cancel culture. In cancel culture anything that could possibly relate to things that are negative must be eliminated. This includes history, the memory of historical figures and anything else that people just don’t like.
Loneliness, forced isolation, and the chaos and around COVID is causing individuals to battle symptoms of PTSD. Many are dealing with the repeated emotional loss by feeling sorry for yourself, which is just another way to stay busy.
The full cost of the COVID Lockdown has yet to calculated. However, it is safe to say that it has brought a major reset to many areas of our personal lives, including relationships. In the advent of every new season of life, we must go through the exercise of redefining ourselves. Many things have changed for us as we learned and grew in the last season, so what needs a recalibration or an adjustment to appropriately engage the new season?
I ran across this article entitled, Are You Leaning on Your Emotionships while You’re Struggling? I cannot recommend everything The Urban Monk puts out, so I suggested chewing the meat and spitting out the bones so to speak. However, this points to something we need to consider as COVID may remain with us for a while.
Obviously, most of you already know what secular ‘experts’ do not. The One who fulfilled every need of Adam and Eve is still there to meet all ours. We have to be intentional to go to Him when the need arises. Don’t wait until you are desperate for connection, for it is available to you every day and He welcomes you with open arms everytime.
We bless you on your journey,
Jim and Pat Banks
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