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Serious change does not come without serious pain. But if justice and change comes from the cross that we are bearing now, then it will be worth it.

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Building endurance means building strength and stamina to endure challenging times. The closer your relationship with God, in good times and bad, the more you'll be able to endure. Your faith will have been tested, and you'll know that God will always bring you to the other side - stronger.

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The current Coronavirus pandemic is just one more evil in this world that we have to deal with. Evil can make us, as human beings, sometimes wonder if God has the capacity to always overcome. But one thing is for sure. It cannot be done without love. And since God is love, and God is always with us, there is always hope.

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When God's faithful become the target of evil, reaching out with even more faithfulness to God will help us overcome that evil.

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There are certainly hardships that we've all encountered in this pandemic era, some of us have had more hardships than others, to be sure. But as Christians, Faith has shown us that there are blessings that come from every situation, if we stop and think about it. What blessings have you encountered in this otherwise tough situation that we are all currently living in?

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The author of "The Revelations of Divine Love" many centuries ago, Julian of Norwich, says "The greatest honor that we can give almighty God is to live gladly, because of the knowledge of God's love."

Are you able to live gladly, even during the age of a pandemic?

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This will be a different kind of Holy Week this year. Coronavirus has seen to that. We will be home and still social distancing. But what is not different is that Easter is coming and it still brings just as much hope to the world as it ever has.

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In these days of Covid-19 seclusion, we're going to need each other even more. Have you reached out to someone, even electronically, today?

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Jesus once promised that where two or three are gathered, that His Spirit would be with us. But how does that work in the age of coronavirus, where we are forced to have worship services digitally? The Reverend Dr. John C. Dorhauer has some reflections on that, which include certain elements of digital worship that he finds a BETTER experience than when we actually worship in person.

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Nothing can distance us from the love of God. Not a virus, nor the distance it can create.

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