During my prayer podcast listening experience yesterday we read from Romans 12: 11-12. Paul, in the previous verses was instructing the early Christians in everyday life. It is here in verse 11 that Paul reminds us to persevere in our zeal for the Lord and to live our lives accordingly. Did you know that a byproduct of zeal, i.e., living for the Lord is joy? A simple, three-lettered word. Joy can be contagious. It’s hard to be around someone who is full of joy and not be uplifted by them. I think Paul reinforces the need for zeal of the Lord still in our own time. In our fear-driven reality…

The past year and a half I have felt as if I were perpetually waiting. I have been working on moving in a new direction, career wise, and that kind of thing requires time. In my case, a year and a half to be exact. During this time I diligently took an online course that took longer than advertised and was littered with technical woes. Thus began my own advent, my own anticipation of the the ‘good’ that was surely on its way. But life changed, not just for me and my family, but for humanity at large. Enter COVID-19. Suddenly I found myself waiting on the news agencies to…