Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

isolation

  • This is a section I cut out of this week’s sermon comparing the two main responses to COVID with what Jesus does in healing the lepers.

  • In the profound moments and the tragic, we are made keenly aware of being in it with other people. But the same applies to every moment.

  • The trouble with being trapped is that it almost doesn’t matter if you are. Feeling trapped can blind us to ways out.

  • 15. Nor is freedom from people anything but a prison of isolation. We sat in Joe’s arguing over greasy food in a debate over which is more important. Deep down, I knew Jen and I didn’t disagree. Not really. The argument wasn’t real. It was semantic. The heat generated from the friction of our altruism. The…