My friend John Owen has encouraged me, and perhaps he can encourage you too.
Responding to 2020 (with help from John Owen)

My friend John Owen has encouraged me, and perhaps he can encourage you too.
The coronavirus panic has exposed our immaturity surrounding mortality.
I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.
Resolved, To be strictly and firmly faithful to my trust, so that, in Prov. 20:6. ‘A faithful man, who can find?’ may not be partly fulfilled in me. -Jonathan Edwards, Resolution #32, 1722 (written at age 19) I’m not much for new year’s resolutions, mostly because they tend to be short sighted and short lived.…
I will be like the dew to Israel. -Hosea 14:5 Christian! despise not spiritual things, because thou hearest not a sound therewith. Much that God doeth, he doeth in silence. -C.H. Spurgeon There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love the Super Bowl halftime show, and the rest of us. I’m…