Sermon for Lent Midweek 5

Many events, especially in the last two years, have served to challenge our normalcy bias. It is possible, with wars and rumors of wars, that it will be challenged even more in the future. Normalcy bias is when we assume that things will just continue as normal, what seems to be a coming threat or catastrophe is no big deal. Like ignoring a tornado warning, thinking, “well I’ve been in dozens of these and was never hit by a tornado before.” Then despite all warnings afterward saying, “I never thought it would happen to me.”