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The New Reality
I am hopeful
I don’t take it for granted for one minute.
Not one minute.
The reality that I am being asked to stay at home in a beautiful community with my wife due to the coronavirus does not escape me.
I understand full well that I am incredibly blessed. I also understand that my life will not be the same.
Being in a nice community does not make me immune from the effects of the virus. I may not be subjected to the germs, but I feel the impact of the world around me being affected.
My life has changed in ways I did not expect.
My wife tried to order some food from Amazon yesterday, because we didn’t want to go to a store. It wasn’t easy to do this. Found out this morning that the food wouldn’t be delivered until April 24.
I have never experienced not being able to order anything from Amazon that I wanted.
In this new reality, I am being taught to delay gratification. I am being taught patience. And, I am being reminded that nothing in this world is going to happen just because I want it to.
Before the virus hit, I had been lulled into a sense that I could have anything I wanted when I wanted it.
