CHRISSY ALSPAUGH
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redictability was comforting. Our lives had rhythms: schedules, routines, and usual places and faces. Until we didn’t. COVID-19 became the virus that infected much more than the two million patients (as this is being written) who have tested positive. It stripped each of us of some of the things that make our lives normal. Some felt the shock far greater. No longer could we buy what we normally buy, see whom we normally see, go where we normally go, or do what we normally do. In the blink of an eye jobs were on hold, schedules became blank, finances hung in jeopardy, and churches closed their doors. Life at times felt unpredictable hour-to-hour, let alone day-to-day. I certainly never expected this going-on-two-months-at-
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