Starts our pretty desperate. Chosen polygamy. Weird. Things were so tragic in the time Isaiah was
From the verse of despair Isaiah pans out to a future Zion known for its holiness, beauty and cloud/fire mystery.
What are we doing to 'cover' their anxiety? do you call people, text them. Isolation is not age related.
Everyone can be taken down with the silence of aloneness. Such silence is so different than the meditation/contemplation
of listening to God's loving presence in prayer, the increased certainty that one is loved, one belongs.
From the verse of despair Isaiah pans out to a future zion known for its holiness, beauty and cloud/fire mystery.
In the midst of any difficult and time stretching situation fatigue sets in. Pandemic fatigue, mask fatigue, death fatigue,
sheer workload.
Some get out of that rut dreaming of a better time. Some believe that this life doesn't matter and that the
only focus is on a brilliant distant shore where there is peace and rest.
The woman who is watching her spouse slip away with dementia
the parent who sees his child alienated because of an unseen virus
the neighbor who is afraid because they have already buried one loved one
We follow Christ not simply because of what is or what will be but also because of who we are called to be now.
Stu