In The Kitchen With Connie

Seems I have spent more time in the kitchen in the last two weeks than I have in a very long time.  I love to cook, but working full time, I "fix" us something to eat rather than really cooking.  

As I was making cookies today, Karen Peck was singing:

Is there a Christian in the house, 
Come on and take a stand,
I don't need a doctor when my hope is runnin' out, 
Somebody tell me is there a christian in the house...

I need a spirit filled, iron willed heaven blessed pass the test, Saint....
(Is There A Christian In The House, Karen Peck and New River)







When life is easy and humans believe the devil's lie that they have it all under control, sometimes believers get kinda brushed off, especially those of us who are a bit vocal! (me..chuckle..a little salt goes a long way, and sometimes I probably get heavy handed with my shaking it out! ) 

When life gets hard, as followers of Christ, we should be approachable, even when brushed aside at other times. We should seize every opportunity to share the hope and security we have in Christ Jesus. I don't have a cure or prevention for Covid-19, but I have an assurance that even if that comes to me, my life is eternal.  After this body of flesh stops working, I will live.

Now don't misunderstand... I am doing every single thing I can do, to prevent catching this nasty virus.  I am trying to be wise in my outings, cautious in my surrounding, and cleaner than clean!  

I don't want it!  I am prepared, but I am not wanting to meet my Maker any time soon.  


I thought of some words from high school reading,  It isn't scripture, but it made me think about our today, even though it was written about the day of Charles Dickens in 1859.



"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

Charles Dickens from A Tale of Two Cities

These are hard times for us.  Yet those of us who are not physically sick with this pestilence are safe, warm, dry, or cool, well fed, have clean water, more clothes than we would wear out in a hundred lifetimes, and feed better food to our dogs than some people have to feed their families.  

Medicine has conquered many a pestilence in the past. We are foolish to think that doctors can cure every disease.  Certainly they can not provide life after death.

"Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. 
 Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits; 
who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases; 
who redeems your life from ruin" (Psalm 103:1-4 MKJV)




My heart hurts for those who are distanced from loved ones who are sick and suffering.  A friend's mother is on a vent, and rather than be by her hospital bedside, prayerfully holding her hand, she is miles away, sheltered in place in her own home. 

Our own son is quarantined in Louisiana, far from his children, far from his mother and daddy.  It would be easy to slip into what Dickens calls 'winter of despair'. 

I am not in despair.  

I am not happy about some things, but there is no despair.   

 "We are pushed hard from all sides. But we are not beaten down. We are bewildered. But that doesn’t make us lose hope.  Others make us suffer. But God does not desert us. We are knocked down. But we are not knocked out."

 (2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NIrV)

Hallelujah