We interrupt this blog series for a special announcement…

It looks like I came home from Fort Payne, Alabama, with more than a few goofy sign pictures. The pastor was talking about all the folks in the church who had come down with COVID, and after I got home, I heard that the pastor himself has it. And now…so do I.

I’d never used the home test kit, so I followed the instructions carefully, including the part that said something like, “Put in the three drops and wait 15 minutes. The C line means it’s a valid test. The T line means you have COVID. The T line may be faint.” Well, my lines came up within two minutes, and they weren’t faint!

The good news is I don’t feel all that bad, no fever, just cold-like symptoms. The bad news is we missed lunch today with long-time friends and faithful blog reader Laura McGlothlin and her husband Brant, who were on a road trip from their home on the Texas coast. Sorry, Brant and Laura! June won’t be able to teach piano this week, and she will have to bump Saturday’s planned recital. Another blog reader, Tom Shaw, and I had a round of golf scheduled for Wednesday, but that’s an easy reschedule. We won’t be able to see some good friends who are hosting an open-house before they leave town Thursday. I hope to be well enough to keep Friday’s lunch appointment.

I can’t complain. We haven’t been sick since February 2019, and what I have appears significantly milder than the previous strains. However, I don’t pretend to be as tough as my friend Rick from the Phoenix area. He was planning on doing a 100-mile bike ride with his son from Denver when he got COVID. He was so sick he had to cut his ride from the 100-mile course down to the 62-mile course! (Like me, Rick turned 75 last December.)

So June and I have “found time.” June will use some of hers to practice piano in preparation for an upcoming wedding she’s playing for. I’ll continue to get ahead on these blogs since we have a trip coming up in two weeks. I have two Zoom meetings Tuesday and two phone appointments Thursday. Along the way, plenty of rest!

We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. (Proverbs 16.9, NLT)