(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)The number of celebrities that have tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19 is growing. But thankfully, the number of celebrities who are recovering is also greater.
The latest celebrity to test positive is gospel great, Bebe Winans from the legendary gospel family. But it wasn’t just him who tested positive, it was also his mother and his brother. Imagine how that must’ve felt? A man of faith who spent your life glorifying God, is then hit with this reality of not only you, but the ones you love.
The R&B/gospel icon shared what that process was on SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show (listen below).
“Sometimes, for some reason, we as a people when we look in and we look at television and various things that’s going on around us, we somehow say, that can’t happen to me for some reason,” he explained. “I don’t know why, but sometimes we believe that, and even myself being cautious, when the outbreak started, I did just a little travel. I was actually in New York and I was like, well, I’m going to Detroit because I had a friend pass and we were having a funeral and just that little travel, I caught it.”
“You can’t just go to the hospital, and if you’re not in need of a respirator they won’t even take you,” he continued. “I’m a man of faith and just raised in and in my mind, I’m just concrete in the subject matter that God is greater than everything. Yet, and still, it’s so important for us to use common sense. So, being on the other side of it now, I’m just… grateful that the word, I just finished my run and through the whole run, I was just saying, God, I thank you. I thank you because it could have been a different outcome for me and my family. So, I’ve learned to be more grateful for life itself. Forget about homes and automobiles and all these things. You can’t take none of that. That means nothing to you when your health is gone.”
So what should be the church’s or faith-based community’s response? In an article that we posted in late March, we noted that there are a number of pastors who were adamant about keeping their doors open during this pandemic.
Which brings to mind this question that many are asking: are faith-based organizations really relying on God or are they only doing it for the money?
BeBe Winans was clear when he said that we, as people of faith, must also exercise “common sense.” And in this case, with him, I’m sure the rest of his family was grateful that he got the necessary medical attention to recover and share his experience with the world.
“I’m going to do what’s best for me, and that is keep moving health-wise in my mind and my spirit,” he added. “Keep the spirit moving. You can sit still and keep your spirit moving. I read a whole bunch. I didn’t know I could read so well.”
Thank you Bebe. We love you!
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