Pen-demic

Our hair is whiter, our skin more wrinkled   Our Children taller   Our aches and pains more pronounced   Many of us are slower and a bit heavier   Some we barely recognize   Others look exactly as they did before   Our numbers are thinned   We wonder if they are watching from home? Covid? Cancer or other diseases? Moved away? Or???   Holes left in the fabric of our lives and community   Threads  pulled,  edges frayed   Now we must rebuild and do our best to incorporate those left and those new to our community into the weave   Pulling some back with  threads of  love, compassion, empathy and sympathy   Others with support and encouragement   Celebrating the  things  we can   As  we all work together to   rebuild   All of us longing for the past to “Reset” to the “Before Time”   But knowing that we can’t go back   But must go forward   To Rebuild, Darn and Rew...

The nation’s response to the Coronavirus has us all rethinking what our lives are about. Do we have to go to gyms to exercise? Can I stay in touch with friends without being near them? Can there ever be too much toilet paper and frozen pizza in the house? Can I get the same uplifting message from online church? Will life go back to what it was before the Coronavirus was in America? Not likely. Any event that is as far reaching to all aspects of our lives will change us. But we go forward just like those before us did in uncertain times. Our spiritual lives have changed, how we worship and congregate. There may be a plus side to our virtual church. There are people that may be searching for deeper meaning in their lives. The world in crazy mode has that effect. But, those same people might be reluctant to go inside a building filled with strangers who may or may not look like them. It is all too much bother to figure when to stand and shake hands(pre-March 2020 referenc...