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“Be Wise” When I was in college, I took an anthropology course.   We talked about cultures.   Different cultures have characteristic ways of expression.   In some, why you want to tell people to behave, the focus is on order.   In others, it is on morality.   With the French people it is, sois sage , “be wise”. We are over a month into our present “stay-at-home” order.   Some people feel protected by it.   Others are anxious for things to be back to the way they were.   The reality is that we do not know when it will be safe for us to go back to stores and restaurants and churches and social events.   So we must proceed with caution and wisdom.   And the reality is that there is no returning to the way things were overnight.   Most likely we will come out of our sheltering in place in some kind of plan involving stages.   At least for a while, what we have, when some things do come back, will be different from the way t...
“Easter, Interrupted” But the angel said to the women, "Don't be afraid. I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. 6 He isn't here, because he's been raised from the dead, just as he said. Come, see the place where they laid him. 7 Now hurry, go and tell his disciples, 'He's been raised from the dead. He's going on ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there.' I've given the message to you." (Matthew 28:5-7 CEB)                 This Easter was a really strange one.   It was interrupted in two ways.   In Southeast Minnesota, we got about six inches of snow, the heavy slushy type.   Travel would have been difficult.   This was my picture of the deck on Easter.   This was not your typical sunny, chocolate bunny, jelly beans, lily-filled holiday. But there was also a bigger, far more serious interruption.   This year it took place during the Covid-19 p...