Dear Friends, Today I’d like to share with you all a song that has been going through my head a lot during this unique time. It’s a hauntingly beautiful African American spiritual called Steal Away. It is often sung at funerals from the vantage point of someone on earth telling someone who has passed away to go home to Jesus. "Steal away to Jesus. Steal away home." But I have thought quite a bit about how this song applies to all of us in our current circumstances. So many of us had such busy lives before all this happened. We were running around to all sorts of things for all sorts of good reasons. And then a pandemic hit and it seems to me that maybe Jesus is asking each of us to take advantage of the silence and stillness in which we find ourselves. "Steal away to Me. Come sit at My feet." One of my favorite Bible verses is Colossians 3:3: "For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ." Hidden. Maybe it's because I have always been up in front and profoundly un-hidden that the word "hidden" is beautiful to me. It reminds me of the feeling of comfort I had as a child when I would make a fort out of blankets and while away the hours...hidden. Stolen away. The other thing about this song that has seemed relevant to me is the lyric "I ain't got long to stay here." In other words, this, too, shall pass. At the end of this clip, I changed the pronoun to "we." We ain't got long to stay here, Friends. On this earth and certainly not in this health crisis. But, for now, steal away to Jesus. Tricia. You can watch the video by clicking on the title of this article or by clicking here: https://youtu.be/44WRToIUEAQ