We’ve passed four months of COVID lockdown, and compared with many people, the impact on us has been minimal. We do a lot of our work at home anyway. We live on a street where we can walk without running more than a couple people. We’ve only had one acquaintance diagnosed with COVID, and she recovered. We’ve had to socially isolate, and I’ve lost a few speaking engagements, but our exposure to the really bad COVID effects has been through the news, and we don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the news.

That said, this story grabbed me. It first started circulating about a week ago: A 30-year-old man in Texas attended a “COVID Party” – an event designed to expose people to the virus. In his case, it was a fatal mistake. One of the last things he said to his nurse was:

I think I made a mistake — I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.

It’s a warning about COVID and a life lesson beyond COVID.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. (Proverbs 16.25, ESV)

All at once he follows her…he does not know that it will cost him his life. (Proverbs 7.22, 23, ESV)