- Take care of yourself. If you are well-cared for, you will be a better partner, parent, sibling, caregiver, roommate, etc
- Turn off the media. While keeping informed can be helpful, too much media consumption can create emotional distance in relationships.
- Communicate ways you’d like to receive safe, nurturing touch. If you live alone, consider bubble baths, fuzzy blankets, or using a muscle roller massage stick or back scratcher for sensation on your skin.
- Take turns deciding which game to play, movie to watch, route to take on your walk, what to bake, etc.
- Share love in as many ways as you can. Tell the people you love that you do. Loving increases love in the world!
- Find ways to have alone time. Some people need more than others.
- Institute a daily spiritual practice or quiet time for reflection and rest.
- Use online meeting platforms such as Zoom, Skype, or Google Hangouts to connect with loved ones on a regular basis.
- Take time for honest check-ins about how you are feeling.
- Focus on gratitude daily. For what are you grateful in your partner/child/parent/roommate?
DELAY IS DANGEROUS (Gen. 19: 15-17) With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished." When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!" The Lord has instructed us that we should hold on to the Rock of Ages for there would be trouble in the world this month. One may then ask when we need to do that. The time is now because delay is dangerous. As we could see from the above passage, Lot’s wife looked back though they have been instructed not to and she perished. Not that she just looked but while others were going forward holding on to the Rock of
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