By definition a virus infects and brings disease. You could say then, Covid-19 is an enemy! Psalm 23 has a word for us when confronted by an enemy. The poem reminds us that, “…in the presence of an enemy a table is set for us.” The presence of an enemy is not the absence of God or God’s blessing, for us, just the opposite. God does God’s best work with the faith we offer in the face of the enemy. Covid-19 is here, and its consequences will be present for some time. Still, Psalm 23 puts us on high alert for God’s blessings! Now is the time to lean into our God and our faith at our kitchen tables with family devotions. Now is the time to look for the grace in this disruption. Now is the time to see the foolishness in our partisanship and find the unity possible as we face a common enemy. Now is the time to appreciate with new gratitude the portion of health we do enjoy. Now is the time to defy the enemies of compassion and peace and to be other-centered; to strengthen the weak, console the fearful and encourage the sick and lonely. No enemy in two thousand years has been able to cancel the church. In every age, all the enemy has ever accomplished is the rekindling of our commitment to the genius and indestructibility of the power of love as taught and lived by Jesus of Nazareth.