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Looming, life’s challenges come from left field
Invading life, pushing through safety shields
Sheltering-in-place brings many changes
Experiencing new rules, with broad ranges
Occupied at home, juggling novel ways
Overcoming change, yet lost in life’s maze
Closing businesses, routines now shuttered
Feeling suddenly strange, life seems cluttered
Playing underfoot, young children amaze
Showing adults, innocence shows new ways
Living with this new normal, upside down
Sensing loss, emotions creating frowns
Praying for those needing support and care
Tapping our faith, God leads with His bright flare
Remaking daily habits, life’s new pace
Shelving normal, left high on a bookcase
Growing each day, uncertainty prevails
Ticking clocks, second hands moving like snails
Hunkering down, persistent virus sprawls
Waiting day by day, patience makes its call

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Patience and being content
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Yes Lisa! Our new normal requires patience and being content with simple things.
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you’ve done a nice job of capturing this new normal…
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Thanks Jim. Life may never return to “exactly” what we had back in January and February.
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I agree, and I’m curious to see what the world will be like when we return…
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Our new normal….it certainly is a test of patience.
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So true Leola! I am not sure if we will ever return to the “old” normal. Feeling like life will have some changes.
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Yes, I think many changes might be coming!!
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Well captured! It’s not my new normal, but I’m using this time to experience new things and to grow closer to God.
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Great Diana! We are finding our “new uniqueness” as we go from day to day.
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“new uniqueness” I like this.
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I LOVE IT. MANY WILL FIND JESUS I THINK. NO ONE AROUND NOT EVE CRIMINALS ESPECIALLY NO DOPE DEALERS IN THE STREETS.
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Pat, thank you for sharing. I am sure our streets are much safer than usual. God’s peace!
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Very good.
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Bonnie, I appreciate your kind words. May God continue to bless you in the coming week. God’s peace!
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You also.
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A poem for our unique historical season we are going through
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