California has been placed on a “Stay at Home” order as of midnight last night due to the virus. It is such an odd feeling to know that I am being mandated to stay home. It is like God is slowing everything around me down and wants complete attention. My emotions have ebbed and flowed today as the rain falls and the self-quarantine becomes very real. My heart is heavy for all the small businesses that will be impacted by this season of uncertainty. If anything this has drawn me to a deeper level of prayer for the people of our nation and actually people around the world.
Understanding that this virus has touched my life in specific ways simply by it having impacted friends brings a reality that is very close to my heart. I have one friend that got home “just in time” from an emergency trip to Greece to be with her dying sister. Also a friend that was traveling in Egypt and her travel was interrupted because a woman on her tour boat tested positive for the virus forcing my friend’s homeward bound travel to be “arranged” for her by the US Embassy. These are truly unprecedented times leaving so many of us with a true sense of a lack of control. I am thankful that I can turn toward my Father in Heaven and trust that He has all things planned for His glory. I may not know what tomorrow brings, but I do know that the God that I surrender my life unto does and that He will comfort me each day as I make the choice to turn toward Him in all my actions.
