On our way home from our daily meal delivery to Robin in the Boston hospital (The authorities are still denying **real science and forbidding visiting!) we stopped off to buy coffee and were permitted to sit outside the coffee shop to enjoy it in the sun. We watched a group of three approach the man opposite to ask if they might sit next to him to eat their lunch. “No! Too close” he nervously objected.
“You can sit with us” we called out, and thus began a new friendship with Dmitri. He pointed to his mother, and told of how she had emigrated from St Petersburg many years ago when Jews were permitted to leave for Israel. They choose instead the plane to Boston. “She raised us to live life fearlessly.” He said.
He found it funny to see I had converted my mask into a “Kippa” to protect my sunburned head. It proved to be more than prophetic when yesterday we got a text message inviting us to join Dmitri and his cousin for their Shabbat celebration. What a fun feast it turned out to be : – )
What a message from Abba, that when in faith we dwell in the shelter of El Shaddai then we can truly enter with joy into the rest of his Shabbat!
……basking in the sunshine of his love rather than masking before the specter of fear.
**Influenza like illness” hospital visits now ‘minimal’ in all but one state. Covid 19 (third red peak) peaked in April. CDC.gov figures.