How to protect myself? 29.4-47

[rosada]

I was wondering if it really was necessary for me to continue with self isolation..
I got 29.4-47.
geeze, stay home and have food delivered to the house???

 

[moss elk]

I was wondering if it really was necessary for me to continue with self isolation..
I got 29.4-47.
geeze, stay home and have food delivered to the house???

Bingo.
Take this very seriously please,
we don't want to lose you.

This is an excellent example of how a line has a general meaning (that is to be disregarded) because it is saying something specifically and clearly literally applicable.
So, we learn the innate meaning in the text,
then be perceptive and prepared to be surprised as well

(like the time I was examining my life, and asked for a judegement on my performance over the previous few weeks.
20.5, I was examining my own life,
and was without fault.)

 

[Liselle]

Agreed. And now I'm questioning my assumption that it's just as safe to go to a grocery store's outdoor pickup area as to have them delivered.

(In my case delivery isn't much easier than pickup, since I live in an upper floor apartment, and it costs more because of the delivery fee. Might have to ask Yi this myself.)

 

[diamanda]

Liselle, if you can have it delivered, pay a bit extra. No amount of money can buy you your health back once it's gone. This virus can possibly damage lungs and heart permanently (and has another possible horrible outcome too).

 

[becalm]

It's not your fault so don't let your spirit get low - have a glass of wine (line 4)

 

[Lavalamp]

"How can I protect myself? 29.4 > 47.
29.4 says plainly take out and food deliveries would be protective.
The 47 context as a lone tree enclosed of course describes social isolation.

In 47's dried up lake image the waters have dried up, and the auspices are the importance of deeds, not words which will not be believed.
Mother Theresa said in letters to her Father confessor, she worked for 40 years of her life feeling nothing of the love of God or the love of Jesus, and she felt no love for the people she was serving. She just went through the motions. Except for profound spiritual experiences during a brief period when she was called to religious work, and during one short sabbatical period, she said she went her whole life feeling nothing.
She asked her confessions be burned. Instead the Catholic Church published them as a book, violating her confessional privacy rights.
In their view, when you feel nothing and are totally dried up yet you go through the motions and do the right thing anyway, this is the very definition of Sainthood.
In my view, if Theresa was a Saint it is in spite of the Church, not because of them, they were extremely negligent in how they cared for one of their precious flock.
To me the 47 image always reminds of that. But the Yi's advice is you always have to do the right thing, even though you have little to no inner resources to carry you through.

- LL

 

[marybluesky]

Stay home, have your needed good delivered, drink some "wine"- not that bad.