Follow a schedule. Pace your work. Leave time for fun. Go outside. Stay six-feet apart.

This is the counsel offered by Scott Kelly, an astronaut who spent a year on the space station.

In God’s wisdom, he built routine, rhythm, and repetition all around us. In normal life, the pace of life paces all of us. We work certain hours, go to school on a routine, sleep a set period of time, and take a break on the weekend.

But in abnormal life, like this season we are in, the metronome-beat of life is gone. Isolation is not normal for herd creatures like human beings.

There is wisdom in Astronaut Kelly’s counsel.

Our Maker designed us to operate in a consistent, beating, repeating rhythm mirrored in daily routines. In our isolation, we will do best when we remand regularity in spite of the irregularity imposed upon us by this microscopic bug.

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