{"id":6840,"date":"2020-04-17T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2020-04-18T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T14:01:03","slug":"365210-i-had-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365210-i-had-a-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#210: I had a plan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Days-365+69a-ADAD-Ash-Wed.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Days-365+69a-ADAD-Ash-Wed-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a>When Lent began 7+ weeks ago, I had a 5 point plan to become &#8220;Just Kinder.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">1.<\/span><\/strong> Eat a vegetarian diet (<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Be Kind to the Environment<\/span><\/strong>)<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">2.<\/span><\/strong> Avoid single use plastics (<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Be Kind to the Environment<\/span><\/strong>)<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">3.<\/span><\/strong> Use more public transportation (<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Be Kind to the Environment<\/span><\/strong> + mix with <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">people in need<\/span><\/strong>)<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">4.<\/span><\/strong> Interact more directly with <span style=\"color: #000000;\">people in need<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (Be helpful to those in need)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">5.<\/span><\/strong> Continue to prune more stuff from my home (<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Live Lightly by sharing my stuff<\/span><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Days-365207-Coronavirus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Days-365207-Coronavirus-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Covid-19 was far away in China in January and the first US death didn\u2019t occur till the end of February. As Lent began the coronavirus began to change life in the US &#8211; <em>but not mine<\/em>. It wasn\u2019t till mid-March that closures and physical social distancing started changing my daily life. Now Lent and Covid-19 have become intermingled. Meetings and religious services went on-line. My Lenten plans of using public transportation (<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>#3<\/strong><\/span>) and direct interaction with people in need (<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>#4<\/strong><\/span>) dropped out of my plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Silouette-w-question-mark.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Silouette-w-question-mark-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>So what did I learn and how did it change me?<br \/>\nA. Who am I? &#8211;<\/strong> What am I worth? I admit that my self-regard is closely tied to being competent and achieving goals. Letting go of my Lenten plan challenged my concept of who I was. Privileged? Important? Worthy?<br \/>\n<strong>B. Who is in Control? &#8211;<\/strong> If I am not in control what is life all about anyway? (Who remembers <em>Alfie<\/em>?) This led to reflecting about Death, Who is God? Is there an afterlife?, Family. and Time (because my watch battery died and I didn\u2019t know if I should to go to a store to get a new one.)<br \/>\n<strong>C. LOVE &#8211; <\/strong>The answer that kept coming was LOVE. How can the love that is in me continue after my death?<\/p>\n<p><strong>So What? &#8211;<\/strong> So what do I do now? After probing the above theological concepts, I still needed to put my love into action but had to rethink the plan I had carefully developed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes I could still basically eat a vegetarian diet and avoid single use plastics.<\/li>\n<li>Using more public transportation and tutoring at the inner city school would be delayed. I volunteered to be a \u201ccar hop\u201d for a neighborhood free food distribution center, but they haven\u2019t called me to work yet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Days-365210-antenna.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Days-365210-antenna-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>I could continue to prune household stuff and did. Through the <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nextdoor\">Nextdoor<\/a><\/span><\/strong> on-line group I found Del Shawn who picked up some remaining give-aways including some clothes, a TV antenna, and baskets. Since she was connected with a small community church, I also gave her 6 Bibles. (If you are wondering why anyone would have 6 extra Bibles, some were children\u2019s Bibles, some were different translations, and some were devotional books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Three Final Questions:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. How has the coronavirus changed your life? What have <em>you<\/em> learned?<br \/>\n2. If you don\u2019t need the $1,200 relief check that the US government is sending out for daily necessities, who (or what cause) will you give it to?<br \/>\n3. What is a daily necessity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lent began 7+ weeks ago, I had a 5 point plan to become &#8220;Just Kinder.&#8221; 1. Eat a vegetarian diet (Be Kind to the Environment) 2. Avoid single use plastics (Be Kind to the Environment) 3. Use more public transportation (Be Kind to the Environment + mix with people in need) 4. 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