Comforts of Grace

This month, the Ram Fam finally celebrated Christmas 2021 and combined it with Easter 2022.  I hope it is the first and only such holiday combination in the future because the reasons behind the delayed/combination were, well, quite frightening at the start and varied as the months continued. The week of Christmas, one of our adult chicks, Taylor, announced he tested positive for Covid.  So we put our Christmas gathering on pause until we knew it could be safely rescheduled for a time when all six families of our flock could be together.   Unfortunately, our strong, healthy chick didn't catch a mild case of Covid.  As the days wore on, he progressively got worse.  While he wasn't hospitalized, thank the Lord, it was a day-by-day uncertainty during his three weeks off work.  His full-strength recovery took an additional several weeks, but he was back to his ornery self again by late January, after many days of prayer and healing blessings from God. Rescheduling Christmas was cha