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I definitely understand what you are saying. Also a great reminder!

Thank you!

Blessings!

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Sometime read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Minister’s Black Veil.” This story has haughted me since I tried to unpack it as a sophomore in a college English class.

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You reveal the striking paradox of the mask. How often the Lord challenges us through paradox to consider, as you put it, what “compassion insists on” through His words and actions in Scripture. As we struggle in our own liminal spaces during this time, it is good to be reminded that the answer to the question “What does compassion insist upon here and now?” will likely lead us to right responses and actions. Interestingly our masks do not cover the entirety of our faces. We can still look and listen, which may be what we need most before we speak or act.

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I have come to view the wearing of a mask as a Sacramental act of mutual love

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There is always so much more going on than what appears on the surface. Underneath the “ battle of the masks” the truth remains!

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This is wonderful reflection on masks in our time. I understand better my own feelings (fear? revulsion?) when I encounter others with masks. Of course I wear my own. In more ways than one. I want to add a further thought on our president NOT wearing a mask, but of course wearing one, or more.

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