Our world is brought to a standstill. Fear ripples through the hearts of men and women and children like the endless reverberations of a stone tossed in a great sea. Pain and sorrow and loss grip all of us in the common bond of COVID 19.

Lives will be lost. Jobs will be lost. People will hurt and grieve and brake. Senior college students are miss their entire spring semesters, their graduations. Long awaited vacations, weddings, funerals have been canceled. Children reel from the effects of this world spinning quickly out of anything that feels familiar. Parents are working at home or even worse, not working at all. The world’s economy dangles by a thread and seems as if it can’t possibly hold on.

We wait for the monster on the lose, surely to arrive in our lives in some way any day now. Read more…