Thoughts and prayers to families around the world due to this pandemic...

COVID-19 Letterbox drop

Day 13 of Lockdown and still keeping busy with much to do but our prayers and thoughts to go families in USA and especially in New York, the new epicentre where a very real pandemic war is waging against the COVID-19 virus.

Our prayers also go out to families in Spain, Italy, France and Germany and other places in the world where families are losing loved ones to this very present scourge and an invisible enemy that is no respecter of persons and is taking the young but especially the older generation and those with health preconditions.

I'm thankful that our nation locked down earlier and that we are not looking at such a large death toll as comparable to other nations but the end is still not yet in sight as over one thousand people in New Zealand have tested positive with the Coronavirus with more to come.

I think it's also good to see that many in our nation and around the world are taking this situation very seriously with empty streets apart from those going too and from work as essential workers and people going on minimised shopping trips for home basics and a quick exercise in a local area in order to save lives.

The world has certainly changed in less than a month and I don't think it will ever be the same again. I know for our family, that it has brought us closer but also mindful of the space that we need in being able to do our own thing and then come together as a family to share in a devotion and lifting up others in prayer with full acknowledgment that there are those frontline workers who are putting their own lives at risk in order to save lives.

 As we are currently in Alert level 4, in a recent letterbox drop every family in NZ received information about the four levels at which we are currently functioning with discussions underway as to when we will move back to a level 3 status.

We only have to look at Wuhan China to see that although they were locked down for over two months, there is still some uncertainty in opening up with fear of a second wave of infections hitting the population that could be even more difficult to contain if the right measures aren't taken into effect. It seems as if the world needs a miracle right now...