When I learned to sew over fifty-five years ago I never dreamed I would ever sew face masks. I’ve sewn dresses, coats, men’s pants and shirts and drapes, but never any medical equipment. The first call came a couple of weeks ago from my grandson asking for masks for the company where he works. “How many do you want?” “Forty.” So I set to work. The quarter inch elastic is as scarce as hen’s teeth. After I ran out I…
In this time of Corona virus 19 we have been put in time out so we can tune in to life in a slower lane. Sunday I watched church (Colonial Presbyterian Church Live) on Facebook. Then I went out to clean up the debris of dead plants left from winter. As I pulled some weeds I noticed tiny pine cones blown from my neighbor’s tree. We had some 50 mile-per-hour winds the other night that must have blown a bunch…
In Numbers 21:5-9 we have an interesting story. The Israelites were complaining about being in the desert with no water and only having manna to eat. The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people. The bites turned out to be lethal. The people came to Moses confessing the sin of complaining against God and their leader, Moses. They asked Moses to intercede in prayer for them for God to remove the snakes. God answered telling Moses to make a bronze…
There is a recent outbreak of the corona virus killing hundreds in China now. It is known as 2019-nCoV and is from a family of viruses that cause everything from the common cold to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.) The virus has little spikes (like the spikes of a crown) that hook cells so the virus can multiply. The word corona refers to the spikes of a crown. The insidiousness of this virus caused me to think of Revelation, chapter…