Greetings. I pray this finds all of you in the best of health and spirits. I pray all of you are Covid free and if you're not then I pray you're on your way to a speedy recovery. So please allow me to apologize for my absence over these past 30 days but it was a whirlwind of a month for me. During that time I experienced a lot of change. There was a cell change, then there were two job changes, one to a temporary job in the kitchen due to the Covid crisis and the prison being quarantined and then a change back to my regular job in the infirmary, and at the end of it all I had to change housing units which involved another cell change and some getting use to. And being truthful with you I'm not a man who likes change, especially when I'm comfortable in a certain routine. But, I also know that my routine, until there is some kind of breakthrough with this virus, will have to remain fluid and so in the midst of all of the worldly change I had to endure a spiritual change was taking place also and God was preparing me. He was preparing me to be comfortable in situations I would normally be uncomfortable in and He did this by allowing me to put myself in uncomfortable and trying situations only to rescue me and remind me through His grace, love, and provision that my comfort was not predicated upon my circumstances but rather my relationship with Him. I had to accept that I have no idea what my new normal is going to look like and that change is probably going to be pretty constant but that doesn't negate my responsibility. It doesn't change the fact that I've been called to do a job and I'm expected to fulfill the duties of that job regardless of what the new normal is and the level of comfort I have within that norm. Change, just like it does for most people makes me uncomfortable but Jesus is my comfort and He's bigger, greater, and more powerful than any change I could ever undergo. Today, I take my eyes off the change going on and focus on my Lord who never changes.
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