How was this year different from all other years?
We have wandered in the valley of Coronavirus for a year now, but for the toll it has taken on all of us, doesn't it feel like we've been wandering for forty? As of 3/16/2021, 535,000 Americans have died from complications from COVID-19. Millions more have been sickened. And just as in the story of the exodus, so many of our elderly have been lost their lives during our sojourn towards a vaccine.
But now the end of the nightmare is almost upon us, and the promised land is in sight. The question is who will be allowed to enter? Who will be allowed to feast on the milk and honey, and who will be locked out (in prison, in immigration detention centers) as we enter the promised land, will we leave essential workers behind in the desert? Will we be content to celebrate finding ourselves free again, while others are still in servitude? While others are still wandering?
What if this year was different from all other years because we welcome EVERYONE into the land of milk and honey?
"You may say that I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us. And the world will be as one"
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