PPE for the Soul

While commenting on the practices that we're all trying to incorporate now to stay healthy in our quarantined environments, it occurred to me that our spiritual practices are our own versions of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for our souls. We need the disciplines of prayer, worship, meditation, bible reading, on our own and with others in virtual space to provide the framework to interpret our actions and feelings and to connect them with the purposed that are beyond ourselves. This is how we'll survive, and even thrive. Our fore-bearers in the Christian faith knew this, as do all prior generations of people who survive crises like ours.  This is the wisdom that has been passed down to us: Spiritual health is a matter of regular devotional hygiene, faithful discipline in the practices that put boundaries around our human tendencies to wander. Faith matters. This is not the time to jettison the spiritual practices we know and understand. It is definitely the time to engage them in much deeper ways.
I do feel some sorrow for those who have no faith traditions to appeal to for such wisdom.  Those unmoored from any faith community--the 'nones' and the 'dones'--may be struggling now to reinvent spiritual exercises for themselves, maybe searching the internet for sites devoted to coping mechanisms with whatever is available to fill a felt need. Some may do well, others not. It's hit and miss. It's difficult to discern what works, and what has stood the test of time when one doesn't have the benefit of the long history with a tradition in which to make such a judgement.
Now I am grateful for the many years of experience in my own Christian practices...not that I'm an expert in any of the them. But I do have the examples of generations of saints who have gone before me--the Desert Mothers and Fathers, the mystics of the European middle ages, the Pilgrims who have progressed--all of whom survived with their own PPE for the Soul and handed on to me.
Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola.