All in Family

How to survive in a time of coronavirus: Turn down the volume

How to survive in a time of coronavirus: Turn down the volume

Mark Wingfield
Faith, Family, Health and healing

In these days of coronavirus fear, everything around us is amplified. Our attention to the news is greater. Our perceptions of threats all around us are greater. In fact, every emotion we experience seems to be amplified. We’re all on edge, and our emotions run a hair trigger away from exploding. Most of us can go from calm to panic in 60 seconds flat. That is because our emotions are amplified. Everything we feel is amplified right now.

Seeing my son get married gives me hope

Seeing my son get married gives me hope

Mark Wingfield
Christmas, Faith, Family

Luke and Tori gave me hope not just by their obvious love but by their willingness to invest themselves in a future none of us can forecast. They are old enough and mature enough to know the state of the world they’re inheriting. And they have chosen to face that future with hope, gift-wrapped in love. That is a joy that is contagious, even to a jaded minister like me.