A Lenten Word
Some say we must be testedfor COVID 19yes, but let us say also we are being testedby COVID 19of what mettle we are, how brittlea kettle cooked chipan iron link binding us togetherwhile keeping distancedo we knowno, we do not yet knowbut moment by momentwe choosewhat is set before usscripture-googled ancient ago: Deuteronomy 30:19one preposition, one conjunction, one wordmaking all the differencein the contradictions in which we are heldwhich we must hold Margaret Dimoplon