{"id":5268,"date":"2020-05-13T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2020-05-13T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:54:52","slug":"lessons-learned-during-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/lessons-learned-during-a-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Learned During a Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-72l1xj-642571b39370b36824bfdb85479e1040\">\n.flex_column.av-72l1xj-642571b39370b36824bfdb85479e1040{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-72l1xj-642571b39370b36824bfdb85479e1040 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k87h2e9t-9c7aee17776f0b4ae943714c39893020\">\n.avia-image-container.av-k87h2e9t-9c7aee17776f0b4ae943714c39893020 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-k87h2e9t-9c7aee17776f0b4ae943714c39893020 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-k87h2e9t-9c7aee17776f0b4ae943714c39893020 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5269 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5269 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920-1030x687.jpg\" alt='' title='connect-20333_1920'  height=\"687\" width=\"1030\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920-705x470.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/connect-20333_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-54ymg7-dfa9aade1d3f56d00267e4aaf3213d5f\">\n.flex_column.av-54ymg7-dfa9aade1d3f56d00267e4aaf3213d5f{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-54ymg7-dfa9aade1d3f56d00267e4aaf3213d5f av_one_full  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-k87gm73x-6a5fa444a1439ec2fb499d915ff9a7f0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lessons Learned During a Crisis<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<h5>By Dr. Sanejo Leonard<\/h5>\n<p>As someone who loves history and making connections between humanity and history, I find myself reflecting upon those commonalities that we as humans experience and why we do what we do. History shows us that crises have come and gone and that regardless of their origin (European nations wanting to flex their newly found military might and establish new territorial borders in WWI, or a sociopath wanting to reestablish his country\u2019s standing in the world and eradicate all others in the process in WWII), crises throw us into chaos but eventually find their own homeostasis.<\/p>\n<p>Individual crises are similar as they challenge us to find a new normal. Losses such as the death of loved ones or the loss of a job challenge us to understand a new way of living without that part of our lives or person who was important to us. Losing my eighty-year-old father at the age of twenty-eight was both expected and yet unexpected as I learned from an early age that it was not a matter of if but when my father would pass away. His debilitating stroke when I was fourteen exposed me to the idea that death was an inevitable part of life even before my young brain could process what that meant.<\/p>\n<p>The lessons I learned during that time of loss, grief, and faith crisis have stayed with me into our current world crisis as learning moments often do. Unfortunately, we as humans do not always learn the needed lessons the first time around and usually have to learn and relearn lessons through future crises.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lesson 1:<\/b> We are learning about our own self-importance and how unimportant and important we are at the same time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While every life is important and part of an interconnected web of relationships, our self-absorption and individual demands for sympathy are tempered at a time of global crisis. We are all struggling in various ways, and many are suffering during this time. None of us has the \u201cmarket cornered\u201d on suffering at this time, though some of us are legitimately hurting and struggling more than others.<\/li>\n<li>While we are not as important as we tend to think we are, we are still learning how much we need human contact to survive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Lesson 2:<\/b> We are learning that can find new ways of having and being church.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While the gathering of fellow believers is important on some level, we are learning that gatherings do not have to constitute a mass of people in order to fulfill that need.<\/li>\n<li>While help from a variety of places is needed, whether the government or our employers, we are learning that the church can and should return to its biblical roots of caring for each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Lesson 3:<\/b> We are learning about priorities and learning to differentiate between desires and needs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While we <i>enjoy<\/i> watching sports, going to movies, going to Disneyland, going to concerts, going to the beaches, and going out to shop or dine, we <i>need<\/i> human contact, a sense of purpose, and continued growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Lesson 4:<\/b> We are learning that the desire for individual homeostasis and self-preservation can overtake the need to care for our fellow humans.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While we are learning how to manage during this crisis, we are learning that it is not just important to survive; <i>how<\/i> we survive and <i>whom<\/i> we hurt or help is actually most important.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Lesson 5:<\/b> We are learning that our interconnectedness as humans goes beyond technological advances in history, and the web of human relationships has always existed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While our needs matter, the needs of others matter just as much. (What happens \u201cover there\u201d (wherever \u201cthere\u201d is), will eventually affect us \u201cover here.\u201d Remember that it wasn\u2019t until America was forced into WWII through Pearl Harbor, until we actually had \u201cskin in the game,\u201d that we entered into a World War that had already decimated Europe and was seeing millions of Jews slaughtered.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Lesson 6:<\/b> I am learning, and continuously re-learning, that God is more concerned about what is happening <i>in<\/i> me than He is what is happening <i>to<\/i> me. And that He is using what is happening <i>to<\/i> me to help shape what is <i>inside<\/i> me.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201c<\/i><i>So do not worry, saying, \u2018What shall we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we drink?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we wear?\u2019 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well\u201d (Matt. 6:31-33, NIV).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>May we re-learn quickly these important lessons and love abundantly in the process.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='av-social-sharing-box av-45lwjr-a7c17c29131f64223ea926453db65cb5 av-social-sharing-box-default  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_comments_list  av-social-sharing-box-fullwidth'><div class=\"av-share-box\"><h5 class='av-share-link-description av-no-toc '>Share this entry<\/h5><ul class=\"av-share-box-list noLightbox\"><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-facebook' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook\" href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/lessons-learned-during-a-crisis\/&#038;t=Lessons%20Learned%20During%20a%20Crisis' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8f3' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on 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2048w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/patrick-fore-b_SHPU5M3nk-unsplash-scaled-e1585149439212-1500x633.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/patrick-fore-b_SHPU5M3nk-unsplash-scaled-e1585149439212-705x298.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/patrick-fore-b_SHPU5M3nk-unsplash-scaled-e1585149439212-450x190.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-54ymg7-dfa9aade1d3f56d00267e4aaf3213d5f\">\n.flex_column.av-54ymg7-dfa9aade1d3f56d00267e4aaf3213d5f{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-54ymg7-dfa9aade1d3f56d00267e4aaf3213d5f av_one_full  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-k87gm73x-6a5fa444a1439ec2fb499d915ff9a7f0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abiding in Christ in the Midst of COVID-19<\/span><\/h1>\n<h5>By Dr. Sanejo Leonard<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The past few weeks I have been meditating and practicing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/lectio-divina-divine-reading\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lectio divina<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a familiar passage in Luke 13, the one where Jesus cries over Jerusalem in his desire to draw the city and its people back to himself. In reflecting upon that scripture, I was drawn to the start of the passage where Pharisees come to him and urge him to leave because Herod wants to kill him. Luke, ever the detailed writer, tips us off in dramatic fashion to the urgency in the narrative by writing \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that very hour<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> some Pharisees came and said to him, \u201cGet away from here, for Herod wants to kill you [italics added]\u201d (Lk. 13:31, NRSV).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether the Pharisees were trying to help Jesus, or this was a ploy to get him out of their city (probably the latter), the sense of urgency would cause any normal person to react: someone is trying to kill you, do something about it! Yet, Jesus was no \u201cnormal\u201d person. While Jesus was both human and divine and struggled with many of the same human emotions we deal with, there was also a sense of calm deep within him, showing his ability to remain at peace despite the fear and anxiety that swirled around him (e.g., remember the story of Jesus asleep on the boat in the midst of the storm in Luke 8:23-25). Jesus\u2019 frequent time spent with the Father in prayer (Lk. 5:16) seems to have contributed to his ability to respond to life\u2019s challenges with a sense of calm rather than the temptation to react. Knee-jerk reactions often reflect ingrained habits, habits and parts of our character that have yet to be transformed into Christ\u2019s likeness and Christ\u2019s character.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of reacting to the Pharisees and their attempt to cause fear, Jesus brings the focus back around to his mission and to others. It is from there that Jesus proceeds to express his sorrow over Jerusalem, desiring to gather her children together in a protective manner (Lk. 13:34), and as such, letting everyone know that his life was not his own; his life was meant to be lived and to die for others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus\u2019 example shows us that our ability to weather our current storm of a global crisis is in our daily and frequent connection with God our loving Father, and the deep and abiding peace we will find from that relationship. As we grow in our ability to remain or abide in Jesus and his love, the fruit from that abiding will be our ability to love others (Jn. 15:5-12). The fruit will be our ability to respond from a well of peace rather than react from a shallow point of fear and anxiety. Our fruit will be responding with hope that only comes from a God who is bigger than our current crisis than a trust in human ability alone to fight this crisis. It is only when we learn to abide in Christ that our reactions change to thoughtful and peaceful responses because we are deeply rooted in Christ and his love (Eph. 3:17-18). Being the self-proclaimed \u201cfraidy-cat\u201d that I am, I need to remind myself of this practice as much as anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May we this day, this week, and in this crisis learn to abide in Christ and find peace and calm there, and in turn, love and care for others to bring God\u2019s light in the midst of this darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='av-social-sharing-box av-45lwjr-a7c17c29131f64223ea926453db65cb5 av-social-sharing-box-default  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_comments_list  av-social-sharing-box-fullwidth'><div class=\"av-share-box\"><h5 class='av-share-link-description av-no-toc '>Share this entry<\/h5><ul class=\"av-share-box-list noLightbox\"><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-facebook' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook\" href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/lessons-learned-during-a-crisis\/&#038;t=Lessons%20Learned%20During%20a%20Crisis' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8f3' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on Facebook'><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-twitter' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on X\" href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Lessons%20Learned%20During%20a%20Crisis&#038;url=https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/?p=5268' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue932' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on X'><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on X<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-square-x-twitter' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on X\" href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Lessons%20Learned%20During%20a%20Crisis&#038;url=https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/?p=5268' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue933' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on X'><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on X<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-pinterest' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Pinterest\" href='https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sum.edu%2Flessons-learned-during-a-crisis%2F&#038;description=Lessons%20Learned%20During%20a%20Crisis&#038;media=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sum.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F05%2Fconnect-20333_1920-705x470.jpg' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8f8' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on Pinterest'><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-linkedin' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on LinkedIn\" href='https:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&#038;title=Lessons%20Learned%20During%20a%20Crisis&#038;url=https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/lessons-learned-during-a-crisis\/' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8fc' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on LinkedIn'><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-reddit' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Reddit\" href='https:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.sum.edu\/lessons-learned-during-a-crisis\/&#038;title=Lessons%20Learned%20During%20a%20Crisis' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue927' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on Reddit'><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='av-buildercomment av-3ahd1j-1c4949f47e598d115633ae113d0ae27b  av-blog-meta-html-info-disabled'><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,67,66,38,1],"tags":[94,72,78,171,90,168,172,173,93,170,169],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-and-theology","category-ethics","category-everyday-life","category-faculty","category-uncategorized","tag-christianity","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-crisis","tag-faith","tag-history","tag-kingdom-of-god","tag-matthew-633","tag-sum","tag-wwi","tag-wwii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - 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