Today we're talking truce talks between Israel and Hamas, updated COVID guidance from the

CDC, a lot protecting IVF in Alabama, and other top news for Monday, February 4.

Stay informed while remaining focus on Christ with the poor over today.

Here's the verse of the week,

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked who perish.

Psalm 1 6.

Let's get started with some espresso shots.

Mediators and Hamas delegates have arrived in Egypt to negotiate a truce, but Israel's seat is empty.

Israel has already, more or less accepted the six weeks ceasefire on the table, which would free Hamas held hostages and

hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and delay Israel's Raf invasion to allow civilians

to clear out but won't show for talks without hostages proof of life.

Hamas has so far rejected that demand.

Negotiators hope to iron out the details of the deal as early as today.

There has not been a stop in the fighting since November's week-long pause.

Pressure for the truce is mounting as overwhelming obstacles are keeping humanitarian

aid from the half million people one step from famine in Gaza.

Saturday the US military tried a new tactic

air dropping 38,000 meals in Gaza

the first of many plan drops.

Our God sees the needy and is a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. In the face of hunger and death,

we're reminded of the good news that one day the Lord Almighty will prepare a

feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine, the best of meats and the finest of wines.

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