God does not remove the storm. God rather guides us through the raging storm. The birth pangs have always remained part of a mother’s experience. Yet, the praise of God resounds at the birth of a child. Sometimes the mother may not even live to see this joy. Sometimes the mother and child do not live through the pangs. Joy and sadness often seem intermingled, so also love and hate, good and evil. Jesus asks us to focus our minds on the glory of God, which the Spirit speaks to us in the midst of all our troubles, trials and temptations. In the glory of the Lord is resurrection, not just of our mortal bodies – because there could be ‘resurrection’ without the spirit of God (Ezekiel 37: 12-14). It was only after the ‘Spirit of God’ was put into them that they lived. Sometimes, it is not about the death of the flesh, which undoubtedly is very painful and heartbreaking, but about a spiritual renewal and transformation that makes even the living to live truly for God and for the good of all. In a world that has grown so greed and marked by so much poverty, inequality, conflict, and lack of compassion, there is a need of this form of spiritual resurrection. Is the current crisis an opportunity? Perhaps, yes!