Turning the Tide: Man Against Humanity

 

 

 

In the midst of this global pestilence indiscriminately unleashed to all corners of the world, one that is wreaking so much unprecedented anxieties and deaths, do we still doubt the vaunted ferocity of man?

 I have no abiding answer, except to imagine an applicable scenario that could apply here.

Man breaks into a pristine place blest by nature with bounty and beauty. It had hills and valleys, meandering waterways, flora and fauna of almost infinitely diverse variety, balmy and hospitable weather in many places. Etc. All perfect for all human living designed in convergence and congruence with nature.

 Yet, nature being what it is did provide some cautionary caveats. There will be rains, tides, and fires, all sorts of tribulation and trial, to provide risks and anxiety for human living, but man is expected to adapt and learn to live side by side with them.

 But man is never contented, nor is he a prudent and diligent steward of nature. He did what he could to degrade and “alter” nature’s provisions. To a point that nature has lost its equilibrium and became instead a hostile force to man. And thus freakish acts of nature have become the new normal.

 Wars and pestilences. Flooding in places where man had chosen to live, harsh typhoons and torrential rains that damage altered topography obliterating humans in the process, deadly diseases in places where humans live in despicably congested conditions, etc.  Worse, diseases marked by the handiwork of humans brought into existence and released to raise havoc to humanity itself.

 Given that, can we humans then lay blame on anybody else but ourselves? Like blaming nature for what is happening?  For the virulence and ferocity that has been unleashed.

 Man must go back to the basics.  To the basic differences between nature and grace. To the basic purpose of human existence.  To the basic creed of God and personal responsibility.

Man then must turn inward rather than outward for this is where his salvation is heading.

 AND BECAUSE DIRE SITUATIONS BRING OUT THE BEST OF HUMANITY, LET THIS ONE BE THE TURNING POINT.  FOR ALL.  AND FOR GOOD.