FEATURE
Walk with Me "We are in an unprecedented time of walking together, both out of fear and necessity. With very little warning, our schools, churches, families and students have been thrown into a time of crisis. How do we not let this crisis go to waste? We will let this be a time when we hold one another’s hands firmly and pledge, by God’s love and grace, to keep walking each other home."
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recently listened to a podcast in which the humorous presenter was encouraging her audience with quips and strategies about coping during this time of pandemic crisis. She is a psychologist with a specific passion for educators. So much of what she said caught my attention. However, she ended her segment with a phrase that seemed to jump through the computer and land in my heart: “My friends, we are on this planet just walking each other home.” Walking each other home! What a beautiful sentiment! As I write this article, we are eight weeks into the COVID-19 crisis, an unprecedented time of walking together, both out of fear and
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Alberta Adventist News
JUNE 2020
By Ronda Ziakris
Education Director, Alberta Conference
necessity; eight weeks since terms such as “social distancing,” “self-isolation,” “quarantine,” and “flatten the curve” have become part of our everyday vernacular; eight weeks since Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer, has become a household name as she gives the updates regarding how many new cases of this disease have been confirmed; eight weeks since the announcement that education could no longer take place in brick-and-mortar schools, causing the life of teachers, parents, and students
