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April 18, 2022
I removed my Covid mask at the essential job yesterday. I honestly can’t tell you when I first started wearing it again. It had to have been before Omicron which has grown toward BA-2. I wanted to feel what it was like to be normal. Where people could see my smile and not read my eyes. Those around me asked, “What’s different about you?” The mask was gone. It was a day of freedom. You could read my lips. Which is going to be a tough thing to share with a future generation that didn’t live it. I had moments of fear. When you work on the frontline, people want to get close. An elderly man with religious spirit grabbed me and hugged very tightly. I kept saying, “I have no mask!” Will it be like this from now on? Not a chance. With time my fear will numb out. The experience goes hand in hand with Pastor Steven Furtick’s Easter message: Life After The Let Down. For two years this generation has had to face that point where it’s time to put faith and trust ahead of the things that have let you down. The pandemic is a huge weight on the world’s shoulders. Until it was written, the first step toward no mask could’ve been easily forgotten. The future generations may have lost out on our experience.