Return to normal? What is normal?

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How many lives, plans, relationships, jobs, businesses, churches, and on, and on, have been changed, lost or put on hold in 2020? How many have been deprived of being with family, friends, work, school?  How many have asked, prayed, wished or hoped for a return to "normal?"

We, who have been so richly blessed, and have taken for granted these blessings, want those blessings again.

 What is "normal?" What is it to be blessed? Jesus gives us the answer in the Beatitudes. Debie Thomas, in The Great Reversal, gives us - who are wanting God's blessings- food for thought. Especially in these times, let us pray for God's blessings, that God's kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven, as Jesus has proclaimed it. May we have the mindset to realize those blessings, and be a blessing to others.

More than ever today we need the blessing of peacemakers. Read Joseph Pagano's "The Beatitudes and Barriers."