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Hey guys,
You’re reading this letter in March, but I’m writing it in January. So, you are now experiencing an anniversary, one that I’ll experience in a couple months, the anniversary of the COVID pandemic. It was last March when the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, our president declared a national emergency, and the “temporary” lockdowns started (and for some of you, those “temporary” lockdowns are still in effect).
After the devastation in South Florida following Hurricane Andrew, some local leaders invited Billy Graham to come preach a message of hope to those thousands of people who had lost so much, many their homes and all they owned. Dr. Graham came and, among other things, he said that, on the flight down, he noticed that someone had written on a roof, “Okay, God, you got our attention. Now what?”
COVID certainly got our attention. It seems to me adding all that happened besides the pandemic—the incredibly divisive election, the hatred, the riots, the violence and death, the anxiety of a political transition, etc.—it was overkill. I told God that and I know he heard me because I spoke about it loudly and often. I told him several times, “And by the way, I’ve mentioned this before." I also think he heard me because...
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