Pressing In and Pressing On

  To mask or not to mask.... That is today's question! :)   First off, let me be clear, I am not here to argue anything. I am just here to write about my own thoughts. This one is a pretty short, clear cut answer for me...Wear a mask. The death rate, from what I understand from reading statistics from reputable sources, is higher than the flu. It is more contagious and causes a higher rate of complications than the flu. It is not just a United States thing. It is an around the world thing. I have a daughter living in Central Asia...COVID is a thing there...so is wearing masks.  Am I personally worried about getting COVID? Well, sorta. I hate getting the flu, and I assume I would hate getting COVID. I don't like getting sick and my guess is you don't either. But am I worried about it in the same way that my friends with cancer are? Or the elderly? Healthcare workers? Those with preexisting health conditions? No. Getting sick will most likely have a much bigger effect ...

There has been so much going on in the world lately.  Politics, health crisis, hate, injustice...and though I have always been a lover of the news, now it overwhelms me. I have spent a majority of the last year learning. Learning about the world around me.  My eyes have been opened to a history that I didn't know was there.  Thoughts and belief systems that once seemed true and strong have broken under the weight of truth. And I don't know what to do with it all except to press in and press on...thus the title of my blog :) My head swirls with thoughts that I can't make sense of. Things that make me really sad and things that make me really angry. There have been good times in my learning too. I have learned more about my Creator and how much He loves me. I can now see Him in things that previously had gone unnoticed.  This blog is going to be a chronicle of my journey. A journey to an unknown destination, and one that I am sure will be full of more questions than an...