The Hardest Work

April 14, 2020
​Beloved:
            I pray this post-Easter greeting finds you well and being gentle with yourself as we enter another week of quarantine.  As I write, a squirrel is scrounging through the flower pots on my back deck looking for the nuts they buried there last fall.  I’ve cleaned off the dead plants and rearranged the pots so they can’t find what they are looking for.  The chickens are yelling about being grounded to their coop for eating my neighbor’s newly laid down grass seed.  And the weeping cherry tree I wanted cut down last year has come back like the tree man said it would, proving that the hardest work I do all day is simply leaving something alone.

            While I rarely assign homework in my Tuesday column, the article linked here is required reading for all of you.  The title is Why Am I So Tired?  — a question I have asked myself these days when I sometimes sleep ten hours a night.  The question might come to you as, “why is it so hard to get anything done when I have all this free time?”  Read the article, friend, then send it to a friend of yours.  It contains the word I needed to move through these days faithfully.
   

            In other news, I was over at the church building yesterday to put away things I’d brought home to record Holy Week services.  Everything there is quietly fine, and it made me all the more proud of you for how we are thriving through these days.  As far as I know, our local households are all healthy.  Extended family members, especially the elderly, are constantly on our minds and in our prayers.  Friends who live alone need our extra contact.  Families with young kids at home have extra duties and no one to spell them, so their patience and strength oblige our prayers as well.  Remember that birthdays and anniversaries are printed in the church directory, so send each other greetings through the mail just as you also call to check in.  We will continue to pre-record services for now and have two live events as scheduled on Sunday afternoons and on Thursday mornings.  Let me or your deacon know if you have a need with which we can help.
     
https://parasolwellness.com/why-am-i-so-tired/?fbclid=IwAR0HdRcVOWxi2IioCT4CdCmKHw9N9ruSHN_kLi_uiiPwX8UZXkp23Vf7DX8