Micah 6:8
Psalm 90:12-17
Yes, your life matters.
We all are still sheltering in place, but I'm here to keep you sane and entertained.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?
Today is Calendar Adjustment Day. It commemorates the shift in Great Britain and her colonies from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, thus matching the calendar used by most of the other European nations (who were generally the Roman Catholic countries). Had you been there in September of 1752, your calendar would have skipped ahead from the second to the fourteenth with no days in between. That sounds like a bizarre couple of weeks, doesn't it? (By the way, the write-up in the link has the date of adoption in Great Britain wrong by a century - it really was 1752, not 1852.)
This probably seems like nothing to folks who were born on February 29. Skipping a few days once in a lifetime is hardly worth a thought compared to trying to figure out how old one is, or on what day to celebrate. It's so emotionally and psychically taxing that you'll find those people seem to age about four years for every birthday they have. Please, have some compassion on our leap-day-born friends, won't you?
After all that, though, I guess the question is, does anybody really know what day it is? Does anybody really care?
Keep Calm and Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
The mental health issues related to our lockdown and the pandemic are especially hard for people with depression. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, has a 24 hour helpline: 800-950-6264.
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