It seems there is only bad news coming from the media. No matter what gets closed down or banned in the way of hurting business the new cases and hospitalization and even the death figures only seem to rise. It seems hopeless. Someone in the media made note of this the other day saying “The only way we can change this pattern is to get a vaccination going. They have about three vaccines competing with each other from major drug companies for who has the best product. I would do everything I could to rush the trial period. In terms of the seasons this is late July and the sun angles have begun to shift back. Also it’s not as light at five thirty as it was a month ago. The days are definitely starting to get shorter. I heard one report saying it would be mid September when they lifted the quarantine. Others are saying it won’t be till November. That would be eight months and that is just way too long. The next time I get out of here will be my dentist appointment on August seventh. I need to savor those moments outside the gates. The Republicans have apparently canceled their convention in August. I guess the democrats are having a “virtual convention” to begin with. Who would have guessed that it would be August and we’d still be having conversations more reminiscent of March or April. There was hope in May, real hope, that the worst was behind us. We had “turned the corner”but this has proved not to be the case. Instead no matter what we do the figures only get worse. The United States still leads the world in Corona virus outbreaks. I guess the United States is still barred from traveling to most of Europe. I don’t know if that includes England or not.
Phyllis a few days ago was telling me about all these unfortunate people who are plagued with every kind of disease. I said something like “Well, where is Jesus? How come he isn’t on the job?” But you aren’t supposed to ask questions like that along with a thousand other quhreestions you aren’t supposed to ask yourself that an ordinary person would. Some people say to be denied a blessing is a curse. People don't like to live knowing or suspecting that God has abandoned them. Jinxes have appeared in my life. I have that swelling in my hip from sleeping on the same side. I’ve developed a strange squeak or something in one of my tennis shoes. Of course we had that cigarette burn in my pants last weekend. Then we have the sock disappearing with the laundry. I don’t like jinxes. We have all these new people and no one of them seem to have cigarettes. Borrowing rates have skyrocketed with little guarantee that they will be paid back on Tuesday. Of course there is that toothache that came out of nowhere and it wasn't even the tooth that was scheduled to be worked on. Doesn't Jesus care about the little things. The little Chinese water torture of items that get you down? Or are we to live in a continued state of fear that something else will go wrong. I'd like to pray to prevent that before it happens. It seems like even a month ago there were less jinxy items vesing my life.
