Comments on: How COVID-19 Reset My Mindset

By: Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:36:31 +0000

In reply to Lucille. Yes, sorry about that Lucille. I am still working on getting the settings right and accidentally sent the last post before it was ready.

By: Lucille

Lucille — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 01:38:34 +0000

Lucinda,
Can you put your whole posts on email again? Depending on what you write about my blocker will not let me get to the site. But I can get it email.
Thanks,
Lucille

By: Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:24:53 +0000

In reply to Wendy Weaver. Wendy, I so agree with your thoughts. And I am encouraged to hear that my words encouraged you. I didn't feel full of much when I wrote them, but I wrote what was on my mind and prayed that what I shared would encourage someone. So you also are an answer to prayer. :)

By: Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 17:30:30 +0000

In reply to Paul Anderson. Good to hear from you, Paul. I think that how COVID-19 affects us in the long term has a lot to do with how we learn from these experiences. For me, it's helped me to re-prioritize and also to spend more quality time with my husband. Those are things I desire to carry forward and with God's help, will try.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:23:45 +0000

In reply to Paul Anderson. Hopefully PEOPLE will be ready to see other PEOPLE again and will spend a little less time looking down at their phones!

By: Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 02:07:30 +0000

As always, thank you for sharing your thoughts. Is it all a hoax? I’ve have had that thought and question more than once. I even half-heartedly joked with Lindsay on March 31st and said, maybe we’ll wake up tomorrow and all of this will be a cosmic April Fool’s joke. I’m not sure if it’s part denial or the fact that I too don’t know anyone who has or has had COVID-19. Like your family, our household was hit hard a few weeks back as well. Coughs, fevers, etc. We assumed it was just that time of year and we were just passing it around as we live together.
One thing I can’t get over is how quickly everything changed. I’ve said it, my Mom and Lindsay’s Mom have each said it. It’s as if someone flipped a switch. Initially, we didn’t want to buy into the hype and hysteria. However, you’re practically forced to if you want to have necessities. Now I wish the switch was flipped again and we could go back to normal. The normal that was taken for granted. Taking our children to playgrounds and the library. Allowing our children to visit and hug their Grandparents. I think our society was already suffering a great disconnect. Heads down, scrolling, scrolling…many of us have trouble maintaining eye contact and holding a conversation. Social distancing has the potential to drive the wedge further. Forbidding gatherings, corporate worship at the time of year we celebrate Christ risen. I can’t help to think there is an underlying spiritual dynamic at play that I just can’t put my finger on.
I do hope this ‘stay-at-home’ time slows us down, brings families together and resets our hearts to each other. I hope when this is all over we don’t just run back to our busyness and try to find fulfillment in those things we are currently living without.
I trust God is sovereign and that there is a prophetic time table for the ages and it is right on schedule. May we fix our eyes upon Jesus…stay home and stay well.

By: Wendy Weaver

Wendy Weaver — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:26:00 +0000

All the children are outside or at work, (ages 1-19), and the house is clean and quiet. I felt in need of encouragement, so sat down and prayed that I would be led to a blog that has something encouraging. I tried yours first, and am blown away by what God gave! Your 1. is exactly what I have been thinking. We live in a time when relationships are almost a god. There is so much pressure to be and to do everything. Pressure to be perfect in relationships and disdain if we are clumsy. Pressure to spend time, always stay connected, etc. with family and friends and everyone I meet. Until it feels like a competition, like some goal other than Jesus Christ. I love people and social life as much as anyone, but sometimes we might just have to put our feet down and say, “Enough. I am going to listen to Jesus about my communicating, not all the pressures of our society!”
Those are just some thoughts, and they are clumsy enough!!
And then, the darling lady talking about “Just go quietly on…” It made me cry. It’s exactly what my husband and I say, to ourselves and to friends who face similar hard situations, “Just focus on Jesus, and then go ahead and do what He wants you to do.”
Bless you today, and may COVID-19 stay far from your door!

By: Betsy

Betsy — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 03:40:35 +0000

That going quietly on clip is beautiful! I agree with your thoughts. I personally know 1 person who has it and know about a few others, but it is not prevalent in my area. I do wonder how much is exaggerated and how much is actual truth? It’s hard to discern.

By: Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:43:25 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Bless our health workers!

By: Lucinda Miller

Lucinda Miller — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:41:54 +0000

In reply to Darla. Interesting thought about the Anabaptist community having a higher immunity. There's probably truth in that. My family did get hit with something pretty hard a few weeks back, knocked some of them out for a couple weeks...now they wonder if it was COVID. No way of knowing anymore.