THE CORONAVIRUS
DID HIM IN
He hadn’t been inside a church for years.
Okay, there was that wedding two years ago
and oh yeah, a funeral of a co-worker ....
But now there is this death from this virus.
But the churches – they are all closed.
He needed a funeral Mass. He needed
to pray. He needed to hear the sacred words,
“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
Just sitting there alone in his apartment,
he felt so - all
alone – so socially distant -
from God, from family, from friends.
He needed Christ: Bread and Communion.
He picked up a dusty Bible and began
to turn clumps and clumps of pages,
but he really didn’t know where to turn -
till he stopped and this is all he got:
“But when you pray, go to your inner room.
Shut the door. Pray to your Father in secret,
and your Father who sees all that is done
in secret will reward you.” [Matthew 6: 6]
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2020
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