Can these dry bones live?

Morning: Psalms 146, 147; Ezekiel 37:1-14; I Corinthians 15:41-50

Evening: Psalms 148, 149; John 15:12-27

Many valuable aspects of human life dried up long before this pandemic. Community became hard to find. Public dialogue grew increasingly rare. Our sense of the common good retreated into greater individualism and self-concern. I long for old-fashioned community spirit and engagement in common cause. The world of the future will depend on this. Ezekiel, during a time of social disintegration, and finding himself in a valley of scattered dry bones, was asked: “Can these bones live?” Ezekiel discovered that, by the action of the Spirit, dry bones may have life breathed into them again. This is my prayer.