Today's third day of my elective homebound status, mixed with cabin fever and way too much TV, including a National Emergency Declaration by our President, has had me stretched!
Stretched out of control.....as if I ever had control!
So...what have I learned.
- First, I am "elderly"----just ask the CDC.
- My pulmonary obstructive airways disease is a risk factor for contracting the coronavirus.
- Pandemics are epidemics jumping borders of countries worldwide.
- Pandemics can cause panic.
- I do not have to panic.
What is the take-a-way?
I, and you, don't have to let extraneous worries of our current pandemic declaration "mess" with our personal bandwidth! As my
dotsydetails 2017 entry shared, & as Carol N. often reminds me, our bandwidth can be stretched beyond our energy or mental capacity----even to disabling our ability to handle our actions appropriately.
Remember God's bandwidth is inexhaustible! Ever present.
Therefore ever-present verses can offer comfort, especially when needed in the night watches.
God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear......(Psalm 46:1-3)
He is a God who is near. (Jeremiah 23:23) Omnipresent.
Knowing His Word, reminds me that He holds me fast in love, (Psalm 91:14); He scrutinizes my path and my lying down and is intimately acquainted with all my ways, (Psalm 139:3); having enclosed me behind and before, (Psalm 139:4); and can "instruct me and teach me, in the way I should go; and counsel you (me) with His eye upon you (me). (Psalm 132:8)
God is an ever-present bandwidth. Amen to that on this Friday the thirteenth!
