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In early March, I received news that the six-month old grandson of a couple in the church where I serve as Minister of Pastoral Care was being taken to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. On the outside, little Everette seemed like any normal six-month old, but local doctors here in Greenville realized that something was amiss with his heart.

On a recent Friday when I was having my morning devotion, I spent part of the time praying for my individual family members.  When it came to pray for my son-in-law Frank, I began to think of what he would face that day in his management role with a major international box company.  Having heard him speak at times of the stressful situations and individuals he deals with almost daily, I asked God to do three things in Frank’s life that day: to let his words and actions be reasoned, seasoned, and measured.

In the late 1980’s, a man named Sam Reck met and later married a widow named JoAnn at his church in Jacksonville, FL. Eventually they moved into the Florida Presbyterian Home where they were known as “Romeo & Juliet.” Last July, JoAnn contracted COVID…