Internal clocks are amazing examples of God’s providential care for his creation. One recent study showed embryonic “clocks” in chickens function like a construction schedule for the formation of their bodies.¹ Another study indicated that plants are able to communicate and synchronize their internal clocks in remarkable ways.²

As the pandemic has strengthened its grip on the world these last couple months, it’s producing one interesting side effect: people are seeking out positive, cheerful news items like never before.

Don’t think that humans have a monopoly on “social distancing”—because even birds are prudent in physical distancing, depending on the contingent hazards that they perceive nearby.^1,2 And birds, like humans, warn one another about the dangers they see, and how best to avoid them.^2-4

Many aspects of American life have been stopped, suspended, or at least slowed down in recent times.^1-3

Yet for Green Bank, West Virginia, a village of less than 150 residents, the townsfolk were already living a low-tech lifestyle. Today journalist Eun Kyung Kim reports:

Although the reports of COVID-19 in Vietnam are relatively low (with 267 cases and zero deaths as of April 15¹), social distancing measures have led to the closures of several small businesses and the loss of thousands of jobs.²