Relent, O Lord, how long will it be?

Have compassion on your servants.

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love.

That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Make us glad for as many days as we have been afflicted,

for as many years as we have been afflicted for as many years as we have seen trouble.

Psalm 90 friends welcome to the Wild at Heart

podcast here in the week of November 16th,

that Psalm felt so appropriate to me this morning,

Alan, as the world begins to lock down again and friends in foreign countries are

sending me text saying oh no here we go and and then our own staff is

reeling because they're shutting the schools back down here in Colorado Springs and sending all the kids home for the rest of the year.

And so dear ones, how long of Lord, how long have compassion on us, satisfy us with

your love that we may sing for joy. We just thought it'd be really good to

circle back around again. Here we go again as it appears that quarantine is upon most of us in some form or fashion, and may actually

be for a time that it would be good to circle back around to caring for our souls, recovering joy, how okay how are we going to navigate round two?

I know my heart needs that. Yes.

So friends, we thought that would be helpful this week and

I've been watching some of the mental health trends through this and there was a fascinating article in the Atlantic this summer

reporting on some research that was actually done 17 years ago

when the first SARS COVID-1 virus, which was sort of a step-cousin to COVID-19, hit Hong Kong.

In three months, it you know blew up, swept the city, killed hundreds of people and

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