Yesterday I was all ready to head to the supermarket and I remembered reading that before you go out, ask yourself, "Is this essential?" I ran my eye down the list of items and nothing; absolutely nothing was essential; things I thought I needed, but not

Yesterday I was all ready to head to the supermarket and I remembered reading that before you go out, ask yourself, "Is this essential?" I ran my eye down the list of items and nothing; absolutely nothing was essential; things I thought I needed, but not essential. I think the whole concept of essential might take on a very different meaning as we live our way through this pandemic.

We will go without many things over the coming months and maybe we will discover that it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference. Perhaps our whole perception of what’s important will be transformed and maybe even what we value. I wonder if the silver lining of this scary, confronting season will be the paring back of all the extraneous things that have been clogging up our lives and relationships.

Hopefully, the intangibles will rise to the surface and we’ll have the time to become reacquainted with their value. I hope we will all live a little differently in the future because we’ve walked through these dark days.