Lockdown 431

Lockdown Day 431- 31 May 2021

And so Mr Prez enforced Level2 Lockdown with adapted regulations. Everyone is mostly relieved things like alcohol sales aren't banned and I, for one, am glad the hard hit wine industry have been given the biggest economic breather yet.

Although I feel curfew could've started earlier, the restaurant industry, who have also had their fair share of economic problems, can also breathe a sigh of relief. Again, the stay-at-home request was reiterated with fair warning of isolation and quarantine regulations to be strictly adhered to.

Suddenly I am back to the movie scene feeling I so frequently had in early Lockdown when Level 5 was enforced. My world view returned to the sci-fi category, wondering about the unseen abominable virus and the new tricks it is up to. My thoughts involuntary go back to these two famous quotes by Corrie ten Boom:

• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
• “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

So tonight I offer up a prayer for those who are worried about this virus and those who have fallen ill with it.

To stop worrying actually strengthens us to stand firm in the spirit and the healing that is available through the wounds Christ bore on the cross.

Our greatest weapon in this pandemic is not in a vaccination, but how faithful we are in our stewardship towards our own bodies, vaccinated or non-vaccinated. Stay close to God's heart. This is God's time. He's got this.