Love in the Time of Corona #1

Love in the Time of Corona*

*a take-off from the book Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish: El amor en los tiem/podcasts/pos del cólera) is a novel by Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez. The novel was first published in Spanish in 1985. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007.


I am hoping to write a short piece here every day. Maybe I am hoping to somehow lift up others' spirits. 
I can share my reflections, my thoughts and things other people have sent me that are worthy of repeating.

Good one for the moment from Austrian Neurologist Viktor Frankl:
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
What is to give light must endure burning.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
A human being is a deciding being.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor Frankl 

Two links I highly recommend:

https://youtu.be/i-4nMixIh5M

www.//cnn.com.audio/podcasts/corona-virus

and this from a friend in Kenya:

*CORONA HAS ITS ADVANTAGES*

Message from an ex-MP from Egypt

*DONT CURSE THE CORONAVIRUS*

✅It has brought back humanity.

✅Brought back people to their Creator and to their morals.

✅It has closed down bars, night clubs, brothels and casinos.

✅It brought down interest rates.

✅Brought families together.

✅It has stopped people eating dead and forbidden animals.

✅So far it has moved one third of military expenditure to health care.

✅Arab countries have banned shisha, (shared hookahs.)

✅Coronavirus is pushing people to prayers.

✅It undermines dictators and their powers.

✅Humans are now worshipping GOD rather than progress and technology.

✅It is forcing authorities to look at its prisons and prisoners.

✅It has taught humans how to sneeze, yawn and cough.

✅Coronavirus is now making us stay at home, living simple lives.

It has taught us how to wash our hands.

*We thank GOD for waking us up to reality and for giving us an opportunity to ask Him for HIS Forgiveness and HIS help.*...

Stay tuned for more. I might not agree with all that people send me, but please take what you feel speaks to you. ~ ss