Beloved in God and Thomas the Apostle: How are you doing? No, really, how are you doing these days? In these very strange days in which all of us are experiencing levels of stress greatly increased due to the events in our country and due to the ongoing, seemingly endless pandemic which has changed all of our lives jarringly and dramatically, how are we? I ask the question of you who read this because it seems important to me for everyone of us to give careful thought to our answer. How are we doing? Part of our answer centers on what we are doing to “protect” ourselves from the onslaught of the incoming “missiles” bearing yet more and more stressful news. Because the world today is “connected” electronically, hardly anything happening anywhere in the world escapes our knowing it. I long to not know much of what the electronic connection…
