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Kathy Fasel (McKinney)
Fear walks the night
By: Kathy Fasel McKinney April 2020
Fear walks the night, pauses, at a threshold and moves on.
Where he enters, no one knows until the dawn when the breath of the loved one falters and is gone.
Silence quivers in the blackness like Poe’s ”Red Death” that crept through the battlements and encompassed the revelers. Even the prince, who thought he was safe, was stricken by the fear that was mightier than his army.
I have never felt this kind of fear in my home until tonight, as I worry and wait.
Will 19 come here? Will it strike a loved one? Will it die in the heat of the summer, never to be felt again, but always in the backs of the minds of those who love, who live, who know its power.
Where do we hide?
How do we live?
When the next touch, the next breath could be “the one” that stems our own breath. Is this the way God wanted our world to end? Is this His final touch.
I think not.
God is a gracious and forgiving God.
This evil is not His doing. His doing is the good that has poured forth as people strive to find a cure, a way to stop this enemy that has invaded our world and has forced us to hide behind the same walls as Prince Prospero, and the people of Jericho. Walls that came tumbling down with the sound of the midnight toll and the blast of a horn.
Will our walls fall beneath the weight of the fear or will the love of God offer us the Hope, the Will, the Joy of Family and Friends once again as we strive to “live” in the present.
One day at a time. One moment, one second, one life.
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