...u covered several angles again Karen...i have just one thought to offer ...many of us through force of our current circumstances have been forced or felt compelled to explore along routes that we otherwise may never have approached and while so much of our efforts have seemed a hell of an inconvenience and perhaps an unwarranted imposition and we may feel at times, well personally speaking that we may not have accomplished very much, however damn it!...and heres the twist i'll venture that many of us, though we may not yet realize it have become much stronger, particularly in our understanding of how evil operates and its ceaseless machinations which knowledge and awareness enhances our resistance and allied to our faith and it's consisting of the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (badly paraphrasing Hebrews 11:1) provides us the patience to endure when we consciously don our spiritual armour!
...u covered several angles again Karen...i have just one thought to offer ...many of us through force of our current circumstances have been forced or felt compelled to explore along routes that we otherwise may never have approached and while so much of our efforts have seemed a hell of an inconvenience and perhaps an unwarranted imposition and we may feel at times, well personally speaking that we may not have accomplished very much, however damn it!...and heres the twist i'll venture that many of us, though we may not yet realize it have become much stronger, particularly in our understanding of how evil operates and its ceaseless machinations which knowledge and awareness enhances our resistance and allied to our faith and it's consisting of the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (badly paraphrasing Hebrews 11:1) provides us the patience to endure when we consciously don our spiritual armour!