It’s my time to write again and share my thoughts with you as a blog writer on Lean Into Jesus Ministries. It just so happens to be during the most challenging circumstances in 2020.
In 2010 our family decided to live intentionally and on purpose with hopes of making a difference in the kingdom. We have loved our life here in Guntersville, Alabama. For the most part, we have stayed the course of living intentional and on purpose in our everyday lives.
On March 28, 2020, at 5:00 pm, all non-essential businesses in Alabama have been asked to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We have been advised to stay at home as much as possible, except for essential trips to the grocery store or the like. In some of the bigger cities in the United States, the population has been given a stay-at-home order. All of us are asked to do our part to flatten the curve or, in simple terms, stop the spread of the virus. The Covid-19 virus doesn’t move; people move it. We stop moving, and the virus dies, it’s that simple. Only it’s not that simple.
This is the first time for many people to ever have to go through something like this. We don’t know what we are doing, so we find someone to trust. For me, it is the CDC center and our local doctors. Another person I trusted was my grandmother Mary Scott. She said, “If you are going to pray, don’t worry, and if you are going to worry, don’t pray.” I would encourage you to pray instead of worrying. Let me share with you the scripture that I have been saying over and over.
Psalm 46:1 “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.”
We are taking this time to relive the summer of 2010. We are enjoying our children, loving on our animals, sitting outside in the beautiful weather, eating egg sandwiches, playing corn hole in the yard, cooking dinner almost every night, eating leftovers, watching the sunset and taking pictures. We are enjoying this precious unexpected gift of time with our family and looking for ways to minister to others from a social distance.
For some of us that work, I don’t know how we did it under normal circumstances and managed a career. Please remember the current circumstances may be temporary for us but troubling for others. For some, it may even be their new normal. Please remember to be sensitive to what others are going through. Take a minute to pray with me:
“Dear Lord, thank you for all your many blessings and your promise of refuge and strength. We realize that You are our ever-present help in trouble. Please be with us in the coming months of change we will be facing. Amen.”
Wendy Griffin
Lean into Jesus Ministries
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