Gandhi
said, "if you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it's a waste of
time looking for him further."
But
what about all the people we don't meet?
In
particular, what about the approximately 66,500 human beings - every one of
whom had a part of God in her, or in him - who have died in the worldwide
COVID-19 pandemic so far? How is God not diminished by such a loss of God's
creations, vessels, and agents?
I
do not know. But I believe God is not diminished. God is not diminished by the
deaths of hundreds of thousands of other people every day from other causes.
God has not been diminished by the deaths of countless of his human, and other,
creations since the beginning of time. For God is the power of life itself, and
death is a part of life. God is the Holy
Spirit, the power of love. Being in each
person, God is in the collective power of human agency and human love.
As
the present pandemic shakes and ravages human society around the world, let us
continue to seek and find that of God in every person, and to represent Love -
to represent God - in helping to care for each other.
