Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I know you're

probably doing the quarantine thing right now and I'm right there with you we're just sitting at home

trying to knock out projects and be productive and we actually have a lot of projects

to knock out because our house got knocked out by a bunch of ice dam. Have you ever heard of this? Ice damning is when you get a whole bunch of snow and then it melts and then it freezes and then it freezes and it never really goes away and then gradually it accumulates into this big giant block of ice and

there's nowhere for the water to go and then apparently the water just it goes through

your roof and into your house which is what we've been dealing with it actually

wrecked a bunch of stuff and we had to vacate our

house for a few weeks here. We just got back into it. Insurance ripped everything out.

We haven't had it put back together yet. So I'm sitting in this room and it's stripped down to studs and there's

you know the places where the insulation used to be that's all visible. It's kind of cold,

but I strung up some blankets and so I'm hoping it's not too echoy and we can just have fun with it.

Obviously in the grand scheme of things my stupid house thing is not that big a deal because I know everyone on this planet right now is dealing with a very similar pressure as we do this thing that I suppose is probably the first phase of how we respond as a global community to the COVID-19 pandemic and that is LALO, flatten out the curve.

I suppose the economy can sustain that for a while and so right now if I'm reading it

right it seems like we're buying ourselves some time through extreme social distancing to put together countermeasures to deal with what we're up against.

I guess that's the phase we're in.

So it's possible for people to endure this thing better when they contract it.

And then I guess we get to the next phase, which is one everybody's excited about,

where some genius comes up with and properly tests a vaccine.

And then I guess that's how you end a pandemic but I don't know in the meantime

it just feels like a lot of sitting at home with my family and the news isn't a ton of fun to watch and so I guess like we decided to do last week let's charge ahead and talk about things that are bigger and more transcendent and again I think getting into the deep water of this stuff only helps us to put

faith in something bigger than ourselves to put trust in God with eyes wide open all the more.

It is one thing to be like, oh times are tough and I'm kind of freaked out and I really, really, really hope there's some grand plan and some vague notion of a deity somewhere that maybe kind of cares. I guess that's balm for the soul for some people but not for me.

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