Wow! Yeah. I have covid! And 13 other people on my squad have it too!
We got back from Louisiana late last Saturday. Some of the people in our van had a slight cold, but no one thought anything of it. As days went by, more of us started getting this little cold. AIM staff is so kind to us and handle all this so well, though! Wednesday morning, after 10 of us had put on our daily morning health assessment that we were not feeling great, we were put into single isolation rooms and all had phone calls with a doctor. Because of the high number of people in isolation, AIM made the decision to split up our squad and put the symptomatic people in a house off-campus as well as the asymptomatic people in another house. I was put into the symptomatic house, completely believing I just had a bad cold. We got our test results on Friday and it all seemed to make sense. The house was silent as we just speechlessly looked at the “positive” screen in front of us.
Honestly, I cannot stop praising the Lord for how blessed we are during this time. We have a house, beds, showers, and food three times a day. We have each other, some horses in the field next door, and most importantly we have the never-changing creator of the Universe with us. He didn’t take us to this isolation house to leave us, but He actually walked in with us, before us, and behind us. We’ve been able to use this time as sweet solitude time with the Lord to rest in Him, grow in Him, and let Him speak into our hearts and health. We’ve been able to use this time to bring the Lord our weaknesses and let Him use them. My heart is constantly overflowing with joy for a Father this good.
Every day of this walk is waking up, telling the Lord that I am willing to surrender everything for the Kingdom, and letting Him do the rest. You know what everything means? Every single thing. If you would’ve told me the day I gave my life to Christ that it would take me here, rejoicing over getting sick, I don’t know if I would’ve believed you. But, guys, the Lord is being glorified through it. Praise Him for that! Do you know what happens in the Kingdom when I say everything is game for the Lord to use? 75 new brothers and sisters in Christ through our two weeks in Louisiana. The 97 families and houses we were able to fix up after the hurricane. WOW! How could I NOT praise Him for that? It’s easy to say “if I didn’t go to Louisiana I wouldn’t have gotten sick!” But If I didn’t go to Louisiana I also wouldn’t have 75 new family members. And I believe the Lord is sovereign over that. All I want is to look more like Jesus, and I believe God has the rest in His hands.
So, yes. I have Covid. Yes, I believe in taking the right precautions to prevent it. No, its not ideal and I wouldn’t have chosen it. Yes, it’s worth it for the Kingdom. and God is good.
The Lord is healing my body quickly, praise God! And now I have 75 new people to hug at the gates of heaven, praise God! And I get to spend days stuck in a house with one thing in mind, to worship the Father more and more every day alongside people who crave the same thing.
Sounds a lot like heaven to me.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
Psalm 73:26 “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
1 Corinthians 15:58 “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
