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Raoul’s Two Cents:<\/strong> May 14, 2021<\/h4>\n

A Special Ordinary Day<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

There was something in the air last Friday when I drove up to the Post Office. I couldn’t put my finger on it but it was there. There were people walking about … a little more than normal. Cars … there were relatively more cars than normal. The restaurants … the make-shift outdoor dining tables were dismantled because people were allowed to dine inside. As I walked to the Post Office I noticed 2 lines of clean, colorful, shining cars … vintage classic cars. It was a car show! Then it hit me. The pandemic was over.
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\nIt’s been fourteen long months since the lock down started, and this was the first public show of any kind. It’s great to be alive. I know it’s just an ordinary day here in Los Angeles, California but this is the day I had dreamed of during the dark days of the pandemic. We made it. Thank God we made it.<\/p>\n

I remembered that many other parts of the world are still struggling with the virus. Many lives are still being lost. We should continue to pray. But to them I say with certainty that their day<\/em> will also come.<\/p>\n

When the ordinary becomes special, you know that the blessings have always been there. We just took it for granted.<\/p>\n

TGIF people!
\nRaoul<\/p>\n

\u201cBehold, I have refined you, but not as silver;<\/em>
\nI have tested you in the furnace of affliction.”<\/em>
\n— Isaiah 48:10<\/p>\n

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Original Art by Raoul Pascual<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Video of the Week<\/span><\/h2>\n

Thanks to Grace of Tempe, Arizona for this moving video:
\n“SORRY”<\/p>\n