Covid-19 suddenly brought to the fore our vulnerability and revealed the bare belly of our society that has placed all its hopes and trust in science and human possibility.
Is it only for love of humanity, and is that a real cause worth giving your life for?
We are in a society that is running on a desperately short supply of spirituality and the spiritual values or qualities, a society too shy to fall down in humble petition to God, and where that major essence of man, has slowly been shut down by greed, noise, self and technology.
What seems to still move the larger part of us, is our own survival without caring for others.
If we want a more humane society that cares for one another, this script must change. Our society will be defined by spiritual and humane attributes, and by our mutual contribution of what is referred to as the common good, and not by technology and development.
The spiritual battle must then be waged at the level of service, care, solidarity and concern for one another, not for personal gains but as a spiritually nourishing and edifying action.
Our strategy in this spiritual war must be to once more make people care for one another in a real way.
Care for the sick, volunteerism, common prayers for those in difficulty, making people accept and learn from vulnerability, and emphasis that there is a Sovereign being, God, who is still in control of His creation is what society needs today.
We must make being human (and therefore vulnerable) acceptable, and in this context we need one another’s assistance and God’s help.
Nyeri Archbishop Anthony Muheria
