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By the wife of a deacon
Special to the Herald
My faith was pounded with life uncertainties long before COVID-19. A big phase in my life had ended. I started a new career. I was happy to move on with new things to learn. There were challenges too numerous to count, for instance, facing the reality that bills don’t change their status of payment.
I felt dry and eroded. One thing I didn’t do was stop praying. I knew that was the right thing to do — to continue being connected with God through prayer. Then COVID-19 happened. I remember being at a stand still and looking at life, very closely! All my children are provided for, and they have some to spare for my husband and me. We’ve lost a loved one, but in a sense we are grateful that she no longer suffers.
God was constantly providing for my family and me. I focused more on prayer. I fell in love with Scriptures all over again. I learned to discipline my time so much so that I was able to build new skills and other sets of language, develop good habits such as walking two to three times a week, eating healthy and losing half a pound a week, acquiring new hobbies such as gardening, helping our kupuna, and most of all spending more time with my husband and the two children still living with us.
God. He gives and takes. No one controls him. We have to trust him, but a big part of that trust is our commitment to prayer. When we are grounded in prayer, we lack nothing.
The author’s name has been withheld on request, except to be identified as a deacon’s wife.