You can provide evidence of God’s presence.

Your nation at the moment is experiencing a societal imposition of isolation. The force, the energy, that is exerted to separate, to divide, to expel is a strong force, and those who live in fear experience a kind of forced isolation. Many feel there is no support. Many feel there is no understanding. Many feel there is no care, no love, no compassion, no recognition of dignity. That imposed isolation leads to unconsolable despair and bitterness for many.

So, the question comes to the fore: in the minds of those who feel isolated, where is God? Where is justice? Where is the sense of mutual respect if not mutual agreement? How is it that one may find a balance and a view that God is present?

That presence can be made whole, made concrete, through the actions of others. Gestures of compassion, gestures of caring, are not lost. When you exercise compassion, care, concern, respect, when you exercise a sense of dignity toward others, those responses provide undeniable evidence of God being present. When there is recognition of that presence, there is no space remaining for a feeling of total isolation. It is what you can do that makes a difference. It is in speaking out and being supportive of those who are separated from others that such separation loses some of its sting.