What Are We Worth in the Age of Corona

    In this Age of Coronavirus, some are already calling for the most vulnerable to go back to work as a patriotic way to protect younger Americans while boosting the employment rate. So the question arises: what has priority, the health of individuals, or the health of the economy? Those in power face that frightening choice.     
     Don’t those who call for an early release back to work realize this could spread the pandemic, thus increasing job losses?     
     And have they forgotten that everyone, whether young or old, is significant? There NEVER will be another person exactly like you or me in all of human history. We’re not happenstance. We’re custom designed, down to the genes in our jeans.     
     “Naw,” you might say. “I’m a product of survival of the fittest.” Not me, baby. I’m not fit enough to make that cut.     
     “I’m an evolutionary coincidence.” But who made the incidence “co?”     
     The awesome truth is that we’re God-created to live with a purpose that includes working, but much more, too.     
     Let me be clear: God so loved the world, not the employment rate, that he gave his only Son so we wouldn’t perish without knowing our Designer, but would have eternal life (The Bible, John 3:16). That’s what was askew with an April 12 date to return to work. Easter is not the deadline to resurrect the economy, it’s the lifeline to resurrect souls.         
​     We’re each worth more than any nation’s gross domestic product, and when it’s safe, we’ll rebuild the economy.