My awesome, Grandchildren, and Annika, Kaleigh, Kate, Gavin; whom I love and pray for every day: As of Wednesday March 25, over three billion people around the world are undergoing a degree of home lockdown and social distancing. China began a mass quarantine, the scale of which the world had never seen. On March 19, China reported ZERO NEW domestic COVID-19 cases. A small volume of cases were still appearing, but these seemed to be linked to travelers returning from outside of the country. A leading infectious disease modeling team based at Imperial College London is now suggesting China’s extreme social distancing measures have been successful in containing the virus. As a result many are OVERWHELMED!!!
Please allow me to share my experience of being overwhelmed on a much smaller scale. A few years ago I volunteered to teach in our Alternative School, where students are sent to us because they could not make it in the “regular” public high school. They come here because of fighting, drugs, carrying weapons, truancy or failing classes. Often, they are ordered by the court to attend and are not really happy about being here. It is pretty much up to the teachers to come up with innovative ways to keep order in our classrooms. We are told that we need to learn to be tolerant with these students’ disrespect and bad language, because many of them have given up hope of being “normal” and just don’t care about what they say or do. One day, in the first week of the semester I WAS OVERWHELMED. nothing I said or did was working, One little “skinny” boy was cussing me out and stirring up trouble, so out of desperation, I said “LORD, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO TO REACH THESE HEATHENS?” The Lord spoke to me in His wonderful still small voice and said: “BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD. I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE HEATHEN.” (Psa. 46:10) The next morning, I started my daily practice of anointing the door posts and chairs in my room and PRAYING FOR THE LORD TO HELP ME TO BE OVERWHELMED WITH THE “AWESOMENESS” OF GOD AND NOT THE “AWFULNESS” OF THE STUDENT’S ATTITUDE. I also started fasting on Mondays. It wasn’t long until things MIRACULOUSLY TURNED AROUND and then I saw God’s wonderful calming presence in the lives of these students. BEING OVERWHELMED IS A TEMPTATION FOR US TO STOP TRUSTING GOD AND JUST GIVE UP. David said: “Hear my cry, O God; ATTEND TO MY PRAYER…I cry unto you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I…you have been A SHELTER FOR ME, AND A STRONG TOWER FROM THE ENEMY.” (Psa. 61:1-3)
Notice: […We must understand that the bible says:] “BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD..” !!!] That’s for you: Stephanie, Ethan, Camden, Olivia, Aidan, Landon, Kinsley, Annika, Kaleigh, Kate, Gavin…