God Is In Control

"Have you heard anything about this?" Emmy asked carrying her laptop into the family room."About what?" Kenny asked. He poked the logs in the fireplace and watched the orange flames."I was watching Greg Benton, and he's talking about some virus from China that's showing up here in the states." Emmy held out her laptop. "Do you know anything about it?""I read something about people in China getting sick.""Apparently they're dying, and now it's spreading all over the globe. A couple days ago a man in Washington walked into a clinic with a fever and a cough. He had been in China visiting family or something.""Does this illness have a name?" Kenny asked closing the fireplace doors. Emmy listened for a moment. "He's calling it the Corona Virus.""Like the typewriter," Kenny said with a grin. Emmy stuck out her tongue. "Ha! Ha! This guy's making it seem pretty serious. Lots of people in China have died.""Thank you for helping," Emmy said. "I'm feeling tired. Would you mind if I take a little nap?""Go ahead, Mom." Kevin said. "We'll be quiet so you can sleep. Should we wake you up if Uncle James comes over?""Yes, please do that." She went upstairs and didn't wake up until a few minutes after six. She came downstairs and found everyone, including Father James, sitting in the breakfast nook eating the leftovers."Why didn't anyone wake me?" she asked."I tried," Kenny said. "I talked to you and rubbed your... arm, but you just moaned and turned over. I thought you needed to sleep more than see us.""I feel a lot better now."Kevin tapped Father James on the arm. "We think Mom has the corona."The "Emmy's Story" series begins when Emmy is four-years-old and quickly progresses to focus on her teen years and beyond. In this book, "God Is In Control: Emmy's Story, Part 18," Emmy deals with the difficulties of a world wide pandemic.