My wife Marcy and I are blessed.
Our home came through last week’s historic winter storm with relatively minor damage from a water leak.
We have electricity. We have heat.
And our insurance company found us a hotel for a few days while we were without water.
We and our immediate family members are, thus far at least, COVID-free.
We’ve had our first vaccinations and expect to get our second in the next week or so.
My mother has had both, and she seems happy, healthy and safe since she moved into a senior living facility in January.
I’m still employed. Marcy is still providing piano lessons, some in person, some online.
We’ve had unexpected expenses, but we’re managing without going too much further into debt.
Yes, we are blessed. But not for these reasons.
To say we are blessed because of our good fortune implies that those less fortunate are not.
And I don’t believe that’s the case.
No, we’re blessed – all of us are blessed – because God loves us.
That was true before the pandemic. That was true before the storm. And it continues to be true.
Because God gave his only Son for us.
Because God’s grace is available and free, regardless of our faults. Regardless of our iniquities.
Simply because God loves us.
In all of our trials and tribulations, in all of our fortune and misfortune, may God continue to bless us all.
Thanks be to God!
Amen!
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