Covid-19— my first experience with pandemic. Before only the fodder of sci-fi or historical stories about the Plague, the effects of pandemic now rule our lives.

My life has changed. Yours too? I miss my normal. I long to sit in a coffee shop. Go to my library. Buy toilet paper whenever I need it.

My responses have swung like a pendulum from my introvert-self enjoying the quiet to my fearful self imagining the worst possible outcomes.

Regardless how I feel about all this, there’s a reality that the Lord has allowed me to live through a historic event upon which normal will pivot and move in a new direction. I want to follow Jesus wherever He goes with this.

On my better days, my response is not an emotion, but an action. I respond with prayer. Below are 19 days worth of prayer for Covid-19. If you’re needing a mental reset, I invite you to use these. There’s no magic formula. You can pray them all in one day, or do one day at a time.

But I’m convinced, the BEST activity for these “shelter in place” days is PRAYER!

19 Days of Prayer

Keep praying!

• For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him… 2 Chronicles 16:9