COVID-19 and My Journey of Grief

This Past Sunday I attended yet another virtual funeral. It is my third in the last few months in which someone close to me has succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic. A lament I’ve felt the sting of this virus 5 times on a personal level. My best friend, a Church planter in South Africa and his wife fought the virus. In one poignant moment, I received a voice mail from him as he quite literally sounded like he was fighting to breathe and could simply suffocate at any moment. That is a sound I won’t soon forget. Then, there was...