Spiritual Distancing

Wear your masks. Wash your hands. Keep socially distanced from others. These ubiquitous directives are on signs everywhere we go, and it has profoundly changed the way we see and physically interact with one another. Has this pandemic also led to a change in the way we see and spiritually interact with God and one another? The Book of 1 John is a family letter exhorting nearness to God so we can relate properly to one another and the world.