Our Current Reality

I don't post very often. I am amazed at writer's who are able to blog daily and appreciate getting to read their work. For me, I have very little time where I can be on my computer and focus. Most of that time is spent doing tasks (bills, correspondence, etc.) or working on my book.  As I don't write so often, I am also still hesitant to put words out to the world and want to edit extensively until I feel comfortable sharing or I write something halfway and get called to duty and don't get back to it for weeks, months...years?

Today I am posting quickly, to reach out across the world as we are all grappling with the reality of Covid-19 and how it is playing out in our countries and communities. Many of us are "sheltering in place" practicing social distancing, while so many of us are called to be on the front lines-ministering to the sick and keeping the essential functions of daily living going.  Many of us do not have the luxury of staying home or are panicked because staying home means not earning money to pay bills and buy food.  

I am praying a lot now, especially as most of the Christian world is in Great Lent and many of us are not attending services.  I pray for the health and safety of our communities, our leaders, our priests, our families, and our healthcare workers. I pray that those of us who are sick are comforted and healing, and that those of us who are sick and don't yet know it and are not spreading illness by staying home as best we are able.  

My family is home and we are adjusting to the new normal of home living without other activities or friends in physical presence with us.  It is a big adjustment to have my two oldest daughters home all day, as well as my husband. Everything is amplified, yet it some ways it is the fulfilling of a dream I've had to live simply.  All of us here, time to do the projects and activities we never get to do. Time for boardgames and afternoon tea.  Looking for snakes and mid-day sister baths and grooming.  I am grateful for this gift of time. I pray that we all stay healthy and that by keeping my family home ,we are saving the lives of those around us as well. 

The first blooms of my daffodil field.