Collaboration

I was reminded yesterday of the importance of co-labor-(ration).  We are all in this together and will emerge from it better if we commit to co-labor with one another in not only following the quarantine guidelines from our medical community but also in finding creative ways to be with and help one another.  The first reminder came at Pinson Mounds, a local National Archeological Park.  My family has been going there for years to picnic and walk their many trails and it is normally deserted but yesterday there were several family groups there walking with us.  We each maintained our safe distance but as we passed each other everyone sincerely greeted us with smiles of affirmation for what we were doing and the safety our distancing was giving all of us.  We were all co-laboring together.  The second reminder came in the late afternoon.  Our daughter Sissy and her husband Bo had set up a Zoom meeting with our whole family to visit, joke, cut up, encourage and pray with and for one another.  What a joy for Betty and me.  It was different, 17 people on one screen and youngsters starved for attention or with limited attention made for a certain learning curve but we did it and look forward to doing it again soon.  Let me encourage all of us to see this as a collaboration with the whole world as we each sincerely seek to save us all but being kind and considerate in the process.  God is for us so who or what can be against us.  Happy distancing trails.  

Our crazy co-labor, (ration)