Psalm 31:1-2
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me!
2 Incline your ear to me;
rescue me speedily!
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a strong fortress to save me!
The photo of the first cave could be God observing His Creation from the Heavens. And the next cave could be David's cave he never thought he'd live in. Or John's cave on Patmos. Or Lazarus' cave in France.
Or it could be the day John was in his cave on a Sunday and the walls melted and Jesus was in His Heaven speaking with John. Matching the descriptions of near death experiences.
And if we continue the thought of God feeling distant like the Book of Esther - at work - but not visible. What did God think of Polio?
The era where people quit eating tomatoes and watermelon for breakfast. The era my father-in-law went to camp in Tyler, Texas as an 11 year old boy, to find his cabin of 15 boys and one counselor were unable to get up one morning. About noon the rest of the camp realized the entire cabin had been stricken with Polio. Ambulances took all 15 boys, with one adult camp counselor, to Parkland Hospital in Dallas. One boy survived of the 15 - my father-in-law. My father-in-law was very marvelous.
Polio.
No end was in sight. Franklin Delano Roosevelt would have much to say about Polio. Unknown cause, unknown cure.
Jesus Christ, His Father and the Holy Spirit are much more linked to the Plans seen in this Life.
TODAY - The Miracle of the Salk Vaccine. No one knows why the vaccine for Polio Works.
There is far more hope than the spiraling fear.
We can talk about:
Purity of food chains, Mad Cow Disease, Chemical Warfare, number of tests, exponential, pandemic, school closures and school lunches. We can talk about H1N1, Ebola in Dallas, Texas in 2016 with one death only. (My mother was in critical condition in the same Presbyterian Hospital, with the Ebola man, at the same time with Pneumonia.) We can think of children in a swimming pool wondering if Polio was next. Shriner Hospitals displayed children in Polio leg braces for more than a lifetime.
And we will speak of Italy and causes and cures.
Fear
How Frightening for the Generation to remember what Polio was for their children. For Polio Survivors today. "History on Fire" with Daniele Bolelli, it's bleak to hear of the painter, year 1571, the child Caravaggio had to escape the city on foot, smuggled out and most of his family died. Milan died. And then think of the term Pandemic.
Do we need to stay home? You bet.
We learn the art of waiting.
We remember the summer days of childhood. My father-in-law always said you are privileged to have two lifetimes. In childhood, you have a summer day lasting a hundred years from early morning to dark and bedtime. And then you are an adult for decades and decades and decades and you find that lasts about 15 years when your children are born and your grandchildren are twenty years old.
Suddenly we have time. And we can count our blessings. 96% Survival. 85% Survival.
We can picnic in our own front yard or patio.
Peter liked Tents!
Abraham lived in a Tent!
We have time to recreate something really Historic. The Festival of Booths (ie The Transfiguration Peter was speaking of). Camping in your own front yard. Being the People of God and His New Covenant with the Grace of Jesus Christ who will be part of this virus Passover. Passover is Survival to Abundant Life.
Economic insecurities are awful. Black Plague would be far worse. Caravaggio left 1,500 pages of Police Records. College Professors and Psychologists believe Caravaggio was a total disaster because all of the men in his family died and most of family died in the plague. We are more fortunate. Self Quarantine.
Abba,
We want to be in the Large Number of Saints who Gather in JOY
to be
In That Number When the Saints Go Marching In!
We are learning to Wait upon You and will practice "Give us The Day!"
We will Live Abundant Life and will live Psalm 78
5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
6 that the coming generation might know— even children yet to be born — to arise and tell their children,
7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments!
Using what we do have on hand...
Discovering knowing the past, seeing way back, makes the future far more Joyous.
Discovering the Walk of Faith - like the Salk Vaccine - Tells us God is Working.
John 5:17
Jesus answered them,
"To this very day My Father is working until this hour, and I am also working.”
We Boldly Pray for this Virus to be Healed, Done and Finished. Amen in Jesus.
We are this day Covered in the Name, the Love, the Mercy the Grace of You - Our Living God.
In Self-quarantine - stay cation. Praying for all people in all this event - united and finding many, many Medical studies of Doctors working across Borders for Healing. The Medical Sharing is Immense. The Solutions Providers range across the earth You call Your Good Creation.
Jesus is the Exact Nature of You, our Living Father God. Healing and the Light of the world is at work in the medical communities and medical studies reaching across the Good Creation.
(Listed in the Medical Studies online at the very end!)
To Live Abundantly placing You and seeking Your Kingdom First. To Live Love, Peace and Joy.
Thank You - Remembering Answered Prayers we all know.
Jesus Christ, God's Son, is Our Living Passover. Alleluia. Amen.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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