Hey, everybody. This is Mary Gelfoyle with Acts 29 with another Lenton bonus feature from Father John.

Today, he offers us all a message of hope and confidence as we live through these challenging days with the panic around the virus and all that flows from that.

This is some rich stuff to take to prayer, my friends, enjoy and God bless and be at peace.

So here we are. We're going into the third Sunday of Lent, and like all of you, I'm sure

my mind's more than preoccupied with everything that's going on in the world, the culture,

the church, right? We're seeing things happen almost minute by minute, right? New headlines

are coming across our phones

and our web pages and whatnot. We're calling and texting each other. Like, did you hear the NBA

got suspended or, you know, they just banned travel from Europe or we're watching all these things

happen? So-and-so just got diagnosed with the virus, whether it's Tom Hanks or it's an NBA All-Star,

whatever the case might be.

And I've just been reflecting on this, like many of you, I'm sure, and I'm trying to ask the Lord,

like, Lord, what are you saying to the church right now? Like, what is the spirit saying to us?

And I found myself this morning, actually a comment that you'd made, Mary. I was having a conversation with

a priest friend of ours some months ago now, and he was telling this story. I think it was from

a Louis Lamor story, who I've never read, I have to admit. But the story, as I understood,

it went something like this. There was a group of cowboys, and they were out there doing their

work, and, you know, they're on the range, they're wrestling cattle and doing all the things they're doing.

And I think I said wrestling cattle, but I should have said wrestling cattle.

So I don't think you wrestle cattle.

At least you shouldn't.

Don't do that.

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