Monday Memes

Happy Monday!  Hope you and your families (whether you're all together or in separate homes) are all doing well and holding on to peace!

Today, I'm sharing some more pandemic memes:

LOL the fresh rolls are definitely the best part of Texas Roadhouse!!

I'm actually thankful to be going in to work 2-3 days a week simply to break up the monotonous routine. lol

This one cracked me up.  My Google search history is delightfully random!

Yay for the Friends theme song being appropriate now!  And yay for real live friends who are there for you when the rain starts to pour, just like they've been there before... because you're there for them too! lol

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I've heard about some crazy cheap flights and hotel rooms, but still not trying to book a trip anywhere just now. lol

Me on some of my non-work days! lol

Lol District 12 Salute!

My goal at the beginning of April was to not go grocery shopping again until May 1st.  My supply of all the things is getting low now.  I'd have to live on protein shakes for a week if I wanna make that happen, and something tells me I'm not that committed to it. lol

"WILSOOOON!" lol  The quarantine/ Castaway parallel makes me laugh.  The loss of Wilson was genuinely a tear-jerker moment in that movie, though.

It makes me happy that you can sign up to complete a run on your own and buy this medal to commemorate it.  Perhaps I should do a socially distant marathon where the miles are also distanced from each other... 5 today, 3 tomorrow, etc. till they add up to 26.2. lol

Okay, so taking a more serious turn... 

Andy Stanley shared this story about the importance of holding on to hope without deceiving ourselves about our current reality, and this was such a good example and quote!

James (an 8-year POW survivor): "I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end." 

Jim:  "You made it out. Tell me about the people who didn't make it out." 

James: "That's easy - the optimists. The optimists were the ones who said, 'We're gonna be out by Christmas,' and Christmas would come and go. Then Easter, and it would come and go. Then pretty soon it was Christmas again. Those men died of a broken heart. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be." ❤

Very different scenario here, and I'm in no way trying to make a prisoner of war comparison!  But the paradoxical idea of having strong faith that things will turn around and you can make the best of this season and come out stronger than before, while simultaneously acknowledging the awful reality that people are suffering and dying and just beginning to feel the financial crisis throughout the world AND the harsh truth that we cannot control this pandemic or wish it all away by a certain date -- that combo is a powerful perspective (and rare these days)!

I'll end this post with some verses that were encouraging to me yesterday:

"Keep and protect me, O God, for in You I have found refuge, and in You do I put my trust and hide myself.  I say to the Lord, You are my Lord! Every good thing I have comes from You... Lord, You alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance... I have set the Lord continually before me; with Him at my right hand, I will not be shaken... You reveal the path of life to me; in Your presence is abundant joy; at Your right hand are eternal pleasures." ~Psalm 16