Imagine how you have felt these past few weeks. Or maybe you are reading this post-tense, in the shadows of a virus that ravished the earth. Life was shut down as we know it. Our resistence to fight a battle bigger than ourselves left us helpless, vulnerable, and feeling out of control. Now imagine, children who […]
Mouths don’t say it. Media dances around it. Minds tend to dwell on it. But nobody is murmering it. “Has God left us?” Is this epidemic that’s paralizing the world, a plague from God, announcing to the world, “He stopped loving us”. Or maybe, “He just doesn’t like us?” “He has moved away. He has found […]
I ask my dark-haired, Latin husband, as he stirs scrambled eggs for three of our adopted daughters, “Do you know what ‘Corona’ means?” “Crown”, he answers without stopping a second. “Are you sure? How do you know?” My skepticism rises. “The word is Spanish.” I stop, freeze in the kitchen, convinced my Spanish-speaking husband knew what […]