March 2020

 March 2020

Day Nine

This is me saying hi to you after a couple of hours if pulling weeds. Thinking of you ... miss your face ... be safe ... love you!

25Carolyn Tillery, Dean Bishop and 23 others

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Day Six of the lock-down.

My g-grandson is spending three nights with us. He’s waiting for me to go to bed. Today we got up early, played cards, ate oatmeal, cleaned up the yard, went to the park where we played soccer and basketball and ran races, ate spaghetti-os downloaded iPhone games, cleaned the garage, painted on old cardboard boxes, went out and got a Rubic’s cube I still cannot solve, a football and a basketball, went home and turned the back yard into a soccer field, played soccer, ate dinner, made root beer floats and watched movies. Tomorrow we will go back to the park with the soccer ball, football and basketball.

Praying for rain. Good night ...

I push myself out of bed
feet planted firmly on the floor
eyes blinking awake
husband softly snoring next to me

I look around

two dogs sleeping on my pillow

walls up and floor down

phone next to my bed

I smile and then frown

what is that thing again

oh yeah

covid something

What would Martin do?

In 1527, the great reformer, Martin Luther was faced with a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague in his small town of Wittenberg, Germany. A fellow pastor asked for his advice on how to handle the situation. Luther’s words were powerful then and they are relevant today.

"I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance inflict and pollute others and so cause their death as a result of my negligence.

If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me, and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me however I shall not avoid place or person but will go freely as stated above. See this is such a God-fearing faith because it is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God.

Luther's Works volume 43 pg. 132 the letter "Whether one may flee from a Deadly Plague" written to Rev. Dr. John Hess