As I reported to you all on the 18th of July, a significant other in my life, my person, was loaded onto an ambulance and taken to Hospital with what was confirmed to be a mild heart attack. He was then in one hospital waiting for a bed to become available at another larger hospital where they would fly him for further treatment. That has happened, he was flown at the end of last week by fixed wing, hospital flight. He had an angiogram the next day and informed me of the bad news that night - he needs a double bypass.....heart surgery. He is scared but holding strong to his faith. His surgery was scheduled for this week but now won't happen for a while. They have had to postpone it - he started coughing and sneezing - the hospital tested - he has COVID. You can imagine the danger in which this places him and how we all feel about it. He is NOT an anti-vaccinator and had I think been vaccinated more than once....I don't know if it had lapsed or not. We need Faith and Hope more than ever before.

Covid is still with us and it still contains the ability to end a life. He is not the only one in Hospital with Covid right now. 126 people were admitted to hospital in the last 30 days with Covid. 28 cases in the last week. Most of them children and those in the 40-50 age range (not elderly but still working age people).

Did God cause Covid? I don’t think so . . . . .did he allow it? Harder question, but I believe this virus was at least partly man-made, an engineered bio-weapon that accidently escaped the Wuhan Lab. I also know we live in a fallen world so this kind of stuff can happen and I am not prepared to put all the blame on God for it. I see it more as part of the ongoing War - Covid is a move of the enemy. I know we have a working vaccine now, God put the right people with the right skills in place and granted them the intelligence, grace and skill to build a vaccine in record time, the fact it works against the new strains, shouts to me that God helped there. But it was designed in a rush and so there are issues and questions with some of the vaccines. But I believe that without them many many more would have died.

I am praying hard for Mark, along with a sick daughter (flu) and a grand-daughter who has just been diagnosed with a genetic disorder that shows a 100% propensity for colon cancer - I am rebuking that one and praying! They do say these things come in 3's. So please pray with me, for my family and keep praying Psalm 91 and the prayers for the sick, I praise God for the huge number of people that have survived the virus. I wish I could be there with Mark but I am not as mobile as I used to be and the Hospital, is hundred's of miles away....I talk to him and pray with him on the phone nightly. I praise God for hospital Chaplains, please pray a blessing on our Chaplains, pray for our medical personal and pray for Mark, my daughter and my grand-daughter.