Saved By The Bell.

A staff member at the college the husband teaches at tested positive for covid on Friday. He'd been at school while infectious, having initially tested negative. As it happens, the husband spotted him sitting under a tree one day during break, and thought to go over to talk to him. At that moment, the bell rang and there was no time for him to do so.

"Saved by the bell" couldn't be more appropriate a phrase to describe this situation. It quite likely meant the difference between the husband being safe and him being classified a casual contact.

It's definitely made us more aware of how uncomfortably close covid can come, and how we need to start making more concrete plans should one of us need to isolate at home.

Our children will return to school from next week and be on site twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. With that, the risk of them being exposed to infection also naturally increases.

Plans are important, and so is getting vaccinated. Taken together, these would give us a good chance of getting through an infection or exposure event more smoothly.

That being said, just like a bell ringing at the right time, there is so much else that remains beyond our control. It is humbling and also comforting to remember that the Lord's hands cover us for everything else that we can't control. We are simply called to do our best, and go forth in peace.