Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, January the 31st, 2023.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

Let's start with the good news. White House announced yesterday that the U.S. plans to end the coronavirus public health emergency on May the 11th.

According to the New York Times, this is a sign that the federal officials believe the pandemic has moved into a new, less dire phase.

Now to the bad news.

A report released yesterday by the world's largest humanitarian network states that the world remains

dangerously unprepared for the next pandemic, which could be just around the corner.

The World Health Organization is currently monitoring nine priority diseases that pose the greatest

public health risk.

One of them is labeled Disease X, acknowledging that a

serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.

I found this news disconcerting, but personally less relevant since there is nothing I can do about

disease X or any other

pathogen. However, this headline also caught my eye. Tens of thousands of Americans may have

this deadly disease and not even know it. I quickly read the story to discover the nature of this

deadly disease and whether I might have it. And I saw an online life

expectancy calculator in today's news and immediately took it myself. The brevity and uncertainty of life

is on my mind and hard today because of something that happened two days ago at the chapel where I

speak on Sundays. I was about

to begin my message when our executive pastor told us that someone was in need of special prayer.

It turned out a couple in the service had received word that their 36-year-old son had just died.

He left three small children. We gathered around the couple to pray for them and to grieve and

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