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Thursday, April 30, 2020

Reflect on Your Experience




The morning found me reading Haggai.  Although the scripture is concerned with conditions after the Babylonian exile and how the people are to rebuild, I am linking the words to the COVID-19 quarantine and how will the world ever return to normal.

Now thus says the Lord of hosts:
   Reflect on your experience!
You have sown much, but have
   brought in little;
   you have eaten, but have not      Think of the Eucharist.
   been satisfied;
You have drunk, but have not        Think of the Eucharist.
   become intoxicated;

Thus says the Lord of hosts:

Reflect on your experience!          I miss Jesus.

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