"Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled": Good Words in These Days of Covid-19 Trials

How do we respond to anxiety and uncertainty? Some practices and perspectives for life at this time of a novel coronavirus.

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Here are timecodes to help you navigate through today’s show:

02:16     Shayna offers some pastoral care in a time of anxiety. “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” What is the truth that this teaching is aiming at? What wisdom can come from near-death experiences, or other contacts with death, in our life?  

07:06     Does faith make us immune to anxiety? What is the difference between having fear, and fear having us?

08:52     What does the practice of sitting quietly do for us? Can people of faith and people of no faith find commonality in this practice?

12:45     Fear, and the desire to have some sense of control, can drive over-the-top buying. How is the run on toilet paper a modern, non-religious purity practice? Shayna believes in the fundamental goodness of people. Do you? In what ways do we need to watch out for judging people as “clean” and “unclean?”

18:00     How does Jesus give us a new teaching on what is clean and unclean?

19:36     Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Was that easy for Jesus to say? Is that easy for us to say?