This is our second week of self isolation living in Toronto, Canada.
Besides going out for our necessities such as grocery shopping and refilling our prescriptions at the pharmacy, we listen to the directives of our government and have been staying home since last week.
During this COVID19 period, my husband and I show great respect and appreciation to our fellow Canadians who also heed and obey our government's directives for social distancing measures. For example, we went to our bank for some banking business yesterday and found a line up outside the bank with everyone standing at six feet apart. No one was there telling us what to do but everyone just did it keeping the recommended distance between each other.
We are OK with the social distancing, staying home and keeping away from our friends and neighbours.
However, it is hard for my 94 year old mom and we have missed seeing her.
My mom lives in a senior apartment by herself and the management has implemented strict visitation policy by asking all visitors to come through the front office entrance so they can screen all visitors such as delivery, home care workers etc. Number of visitors are limited and visitors are expected to hear masks It’s their effort to disallow entry to people who might have travel outside of Canada or may be symptomatic with the flu or possibly C-19!
Today is Sunday. This morning, we went online and attended a Sunday service broadcast live by our church.
With technology, each person involved in the church service was doing his/her part from home . We were able to sing hymns and listen to our minister's message.
However, for the first time we could not take part in the communion at church.
Though we travel a lot, we always manage to find and attend a local church service wherever we go and take part in their communion service.
Obeying the Ontario government's directives of social distancing and no gathering of more than five people, we could only stay home watching Rev. Chan performing the communion service from his home this morning, We were unable to physically be a part of it.
I felt very sad and broke down in tears. Things which we have taken for granted - freedom of religion, freedom of attending church services, freedom of movement can be so easily taken away from us, this time by a virus, a pandemic.
Though we have freedom, but we cannot see our loved ones, cannot get together with friends or attend a church service.
However, we need to be grateful and appreciative. My most sincere thank you to all the front line health care workers and essential service people who keep going to work serving us . Words cannot express our thanks and deep appreciation to what you are doing. May God bless you and keep you safe!
My mom lives in a senior apartment by herself and the management has implemented strict visitation policy by asking all visitors to come through the front office entrance so they can screen all visitors such as delivery, home care workers etc. Number of visitors are limited and visitors are expected to hear masks It’s their effort to disallow entry to people who might have travel outside of Canada or may be symptomatic with the flu or possibly C-19!
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| Attending our church's Sunday Worship at home via our cell phone |
Today is Sunday. This morning, we went online and attended a Sunday service broadcast live by our church.
With technology, each person involved in the church service was doing his/her part from home . We were able to sing hymns and listen to our minister's message.
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However, for the first time we could not take part in the communion at church.
Though we travel a lot, we always manage to find and attend a local church service wherever we go and take part in their communion service.
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| Rev. Chan performing a communion service via the internet |
Obeying the Ontario government's directives of social distancing and no gathering of more than five people, we could only stay home watching Rev. Chan performing the communion service from his home this morning, We were unable to physically be a part of it.
I felt very sad and broke down in tears. Things which we have taken for granted - freedom of religion, freedom of attending church services, freedom of movement can be so easily taken away from us, this time by a virus, a pandemic.
Though we have freedom, but we cannot see our loved ones, cannot get together with friends or attend a church service.
However, we need to be grateful and appreciative. My most sincere thank you to all the front line health care workers and essential service people who keep going to work serving us . Words cannot express our thanks and deep appreciation to what you are doing. May God bless you and keep you safe!
We are living in an unprecedented time with many uncertainties ahead of us. It is my sincere wish that while spending more time at home, we will reflect more on the fragility of life and come to realize that our only hope and trust can only be found in our almighty God!
R.T.
Toronto, Canada
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