Lockdown 21

Lockdown Day 21 - 16 April 2020 

The same 'watching from afar' feeling from yesterday followed me into today, the 21st day of Lockdown. Can you believe it!!! We were wondering how we would get through this and look, 21 days have passed.  Astounding. And still kind of 'movie-theatre-ish'.  While standing in front of my window, feeling as if I'm on the banks of a very wide river in flood (I've read the Amazon is 11km wide in drought season), watching the world's countries floating by, forced to go where the water takes them. In a sense everyone is incapacitated. A captive contentment fast becoming an inner conviction. All because of an unseen virus. Crazy world. 

But, when I turn away from the big picture, I see families enjoying precious time together and people redeeming lost time with their loved ones. Others are helping with resources and all over there are supplications in prayer going up to restore relationships on earth and in heaven. Over the past 21 days many have learned how to be more mindful, more thankful and more prayerful. One of my wonderful friends and I share a saying: "look for the little flowers along the way". We say this to each other when going through tough times and need a friend to talk to. The little flowers can represent anything from flowers to little jewels in our path to remind us that God's got this. So tonight I encourage you to look for the 'little flowers' in the next 14 days. A symbol of Godly sustenance. Like the tiniest baby feather I received this morning, reminding me that God has still got this.