From The Deacon's Bench

Challenge I don’t know about you, but I feel challenged every day and as the days go by the challenge becomes greater.   It seems like a bad dream, and then I sleep more and when I wake up there are fewer reports of good news and even more negative reports than the day before. As I write this, the number of deaths due to Covid-19 in the USA has topped one hundred thousand.   So, in just over four months this staggering number of deaths has occurred.   Guidelines for safety were released weeks after the first case was discovered and it took even longer to implement them.   All health care authorities agreed that social distancing was necessary and is a basic preventative measure.   There were other measures such as face coverings additional hand washing and cleaning of surfaces. Yet, more and more, I hear and read about individuals who feel it is “their God given right” to behave however they wish.   I’m really not sure what God those individuals might be referring to.