Blessings During Covid
For the first 9 months of our marriage, Bryan and I dealt with some sizable obstacles: isolation (courtesy of living at a power plant), surprise medical issues (thanks lungs...not Covid though), and some serious overtime for Bryan (learning to be a manager, preparing for, and executing a 46 day maintenance outage which guaranteed he was indisposed 8am to 11pm every night, minimum). Through it all, God used those challenges to bring us closer together than either of us could have imagined. We entered the Year of the Rat (2020) tired, beleaguered, and ready to recharge for a while stateside. Like many expats do, we left over the Chinese New Year Holiday ( end of January), and headed to the US for a short home leave- expecting to be back in our Chinese abode (or jiā) well before St. Patrick’s Day (2020). However, you know what they say about the best laid plans – they’re nothing against a global pandemic. As we made for the airport in Shanghai, China was literally closing down and board...