Life Goes On

There is an old song that I think Bing Crosby recorded with the lines "You gotta accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and don't mess with Mr. In Between."  I love that thought. If you have ever said, I'd love to read more, sew more, spend more time on my hobby, etc. well the pandemic has given you the time.  The "positive" is that you can now focus on the things you didn't have time for before.  Some folks have even found a new vocation.  You could write a book, compose a poem or song, write or call friends you haven't seen in years, do some body-weight workouts or any number of things. For those who are Christians, this is a great time to meditate on passages of scripture that you've read or to memorize a verse or two every week.

The Corona virus pandemic has caused a lot of fear.  This should not be the case for the Christ follower.  Ps. 139:16 assures us that "Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb.  All the days ordained for me wer e recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence."   That underlined sentence should set your mind at ease if you are a believer.  You are not going to die one day, one hour or one minute earlier than God has planned for you.  Often when I'm praying for someone who has lived a long life and has seemingly reached a point where they can no longer function, God reminds me that either there is something He yet wants to do IN them or THROUGH them before he takes them home. The only instance of God adding time to a person's life that I can recall from scripture is in Hezekiah's life.  In 2 Kings 20 we find that Hezekiah became terminally ill.  God sent the prophet Isaiah to tell him that he should set his house in order because he was about to