How do we make sense of "normal life" when it feels like the world is on fire?

In the midst of global and national crisis, thoughts like these go through my mind: At such a time, is it right for us to keep following our routines, working and playing, resting and reading? Isn't this an emergency? Shouldn't we disrupt our lives to go take decisive action on behalf of the vulnerable? But what would that decisive action even look like?

C.S. Lewis helps answer questions like these in his wonderful 1939 sermon, "Learning in Wartime."

Sources: Psalm 140:12 (ESV)

2 Corinthians 6:2 (ESV)

C.S. Lewis, "Learning in War-Time" (sermon, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, Autumn 1939). Christendom College, February 2021.

C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (New York: HarperCollins, 2009). First published 1954 by Geoffrey Bles (London).

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18: Working When the World Is On Fire