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Rock Solid Savior: Mark 13:1-8 - Fifth Sunday of Lent

Elizabeth was cleaning out our pantry the other day when she came across two glass bottles of hand sanitizer. This was the sanitizer produced by the Faber Liquor company at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, back when regular hand sanitizer was nowhere to be found on store shelves, along with toilet paper, butter, and ketchup. I bought these bottles thinking that it was my only opportunity to have something my family desperately needed. Four years later, however, I never opened them. Worse, I have an entire case of these bottles in the storage room at First Lutheran. We will probably throw them away,  because many of the hand sanitizers manufactured during the pandemic contain dangerous levels of wood alcohol, which is toxic. There were a lot of things I bought that I still have not used: disinfectant sprays, sanitizing wipes, and even more hand sanitizer. We can laugh about it now, but when the world shut down, it felt like the end of the world. It felt like we were living through t

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