2020.04 The Invisible Enemy of WW III

³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of ^[m]Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ Just as it is written,

“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

³⁷ But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” Romans 8:35-37

There are still more questions than answers. Is it bio-terrorism? Was it planned? Was it an experiment gone awry? Who knows? Maybe someone or maybe that someone has perished as a result of a release of the virus that is terrorizing most of the world right now. Chances are we will not know if there is a “someone” behind it or if it’s just a research accident or none of the above. What we do know is that it is wreaking havoc everywhere in the civilized world.

Many are ill and elderly and those with compromised immune systems that have it are struggling to survive. The Italians are all locked down and singing from their balconies and windows – anything to have community. There was some question early on if this was a hoax. It was so hard to know. Now it seems quite real and here and now. People are dying and sick. We are frogs in boiling water though. First they said two weeks and then 6 and now I heard through the grapevine they are talking about 18 months before we are out of this.

Most businesses won’t be able to hold on that long. This will be far worse than the Great Recession if that is the case. Hoping that is a bad estimate but realizing that it is time to think differently about everything.

Maybe the most profound moments I’ve had since returning to the mortgage industry is my sense of brutal honesty about things and living in a world of reality and having permission to speak that. As opposed to years of being required to please others in order to make business happen. Some of this is our world changing and another part of it is that I have better aligned myself with like minded bosses instead of working for the boss that hides the truth and just fixes everything. I had that habit and I hated that obligation. It was a miserable life. Being honest isn’t fun when folks freak out, but is a way to manage the relationship authentically and that is what I want to be – authentic.

Watching a crisis unfold yet again and trusting in the Sovereignty of the Living Yahweh today,

Kiki

Here’s the crisis moment from one of my favorite films depicting the climax of our last economic crisis. There is something about this that feels so similar though I know it is very different.