BLOGS

While talking to God in the burning bush, Moses asked God what he should call Him. God said unto Moses, “I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you” (Exodus 3:14 KJV).

“Sometimes blessings come in ugly wrapping paper.”
—Robbie Norton

This quote pretty much sums up how I feel right now. COVID-19 is some of the ugliest wrapping paper I have ever laid my eyes on.

A small pack of dogs sat on top of the hill and watched us speed by. Everywhere in Bolivia, there are dogs.

As the world reacted to the coronavirus pandemic, it didn’t take long to find out which jobs are deemed essential and which ones we can live without, at least temporarily. It’s not surprising that our essential workers are the same group of people who don’t shutter their businesses on a holiday.

As fear escalated in January 2020 over what would become a global pandemic, and the store shelves became devoid of the necessities of life, I thought about the hard things of the past and realized that nothing stays forever.