1. We don’t need much to live and be happy.
If there is one thing that COVID-19 is forcing us to admit, it is that we don’t need much to live and be happy.
2. The human being will find a way of taking advantage of every situation. It may disgust you but the fact is that the human being will find a way of taking advantage of every situation. Your crisis is someone’s windfall. Your anguish is someone’s profit.
3. We can reach out to God outside the confines of the church building as well. Over the ages and in all countries, some church leaders have ensured that their members are oriented to think that they can find God only in church. Today, churches are shut and I know that prayers are still being lifted up to God. And now, hopefully, Christians are being reminded that God does not reside in a building put up by men; that God is spirit and they that worship him must do so in spirit and in truth.
4. Humans are not in control as much as we think we are. A friend once said to me, “Uncle Ebo, I think we should make it mandatory for people to visit the mortuary once a year.” He said if we did that, perhaps people will learn to be more humble.
The human being has the tendency of believing that he is indestructible; we talk as if we own everything; we act as if we will never die and we operate as if we are our own masters. We hear people saying things like, I will destroy you; I will show you where power lies; and you realise that we forget our place in the universe. But every now and then, something happens that reminds us that we are not really in control.
5. We should not take life and anything for granted. Some of us are realizing we had been blessed with so much and we did not know it because we had taken so much for granted. Hopefully when this is all over, we will begin to appreciate everything we have and every day that we are spared.
Source: Uncle Ebo Whyte
