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Psalm chapter 109, verses 30 and 31.

With my mouth, I will give great thanks to the Lord.

I will praise him in the midst of the throng,

for he stands at the right hand of the needy one.

When I think about the Psalm and its whole context, it's actually a psalmist reaction, kind of lament

to being accused and derided by many people, and the Psalmist feels alone in the middle of that.

And as I've been reading through all of these prayer requests from people who've sent things in for themselves, for others, in light of this pandemic,

and I encourage you continue to send those prayer requests in, radical.net slash prayer requests, just so we can take time each day to pray for each other specifically in ways that represent a lot of people during this time.

But I was reading what Melissa wrote.

She said, I have a friend, Angela, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer during this pandemic.

She found out alone. She's had 10 biopsies alone.

She cannot get hugs from her friends and extended family. She has two small sons.

As I read this from Melissa, I immediately thought about all the unique challenges we're all facing when it comes

to isolation, not being around other people, even just the awkwardness when I am having

conversations with people out in my neighborhood or whenever I do see someone else and I'm so

far away from them, just nowhere close to them, certainly not able to

touch to give someone else a hug or even a simple handshake. And then to think about the unique

challenges that come with walking through a breast cancer diagnosis and all that that entails.

And other things that other people are walking through

on top of the isolation that's already there. And yes, the unique challenges that go with that.

And then I read Psalm 109 verse 30. With my mouth, I will give great thanks to the Lord. I will

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