I Am NOT Just a Number

Isolation continues as the infection litters the globe exposing one person after another with its powerful virus. As of April 9, 2020, over 14,000 people have died across the US alone from this respiratory disease. Most of us have not experienced a true understanding of what disease really is in many ways until now. The finality, consequences, of a single decision can lead to immediate infection and, just as quickly, the end of a life. How cruel can this disease be? As some argue the origins, one must look at it's core. It's here and we cannot deny it anymore. We all must take action and responsibility at some point. For many, this pandemic has brought some to God. Non-church going Americans are streaming services online and beginning to seek out the true Healer amidst this decaying and broken world. Others chase after things that may bring temporary satisfaction and entertainment. What are we really chasing after? Doesn't this virus and the search for a cure bring us all...

No one could have imagined a world where we were sequestered to our homes. Roaming aimlessly from room to room, becoming over night home school teachers, constant entertainers, for some "increased drinkers". Each one examined by work performance as essential or nonessential to our seemingly halted society. It is a time of pandemic. Death charts and graphics bombard our screens crippling some to fear, others to hoard, many to pray. What has happened to our world? The world we know. Why did life seem so ideal in February yet so bleak in March? And what will April yield? More death.. more pain.. more scars.. Job 12:24-25 says "He deprives the heads of the people of the earth of understanding, and causes them to wander in a pathless wasteland. They grope in darkness with no light; He makes them stagger like a drunkard". We are all helpless. No one knows who will pick up COVID-19 next. There is no cure. Progress is definitely being made, but for now, to many, it all ...