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Daily Excerpt: God Speaks into Darkness (Easterling) - Helping the Helpless

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   Excerpt from  God Speaks into Darkness Helper of the Helpless Inspired by Psalm 10 A terrifying new flu-like disease, the coronavirus, is sweeping the globe. The World Health Organization has declared it a pandemic; the President declared a national emergency. Nations around the world have closed their borders, barring public gatherings and shutting down schools and churches, restaurants, businesses and sports events in a race to save lives. Doctors and health care workers are risking their lives to save people. Mortality rates are ten times as high as with other flus. Some nations are digging trenches for mass graves. The stock markets and people’s life savings are in free-fall. Legislators are passing emergency relief measures. Food pantries and soup kitchens are overwhelmed. Feeding stations are springing up to feed the masses needing relief, lines of cars extending for miles as people wait in line. In some countries, people have been trampled by others driven wild by hunger, try