Lockdown 23

Lockdown Day 23 - 18 April 2020

What is grace in Lockdown? To have a full day. Those days when you hit the ground running, having breakfast after lunch and time just feels faster than normal. The million little things that need to be done every week. 

To accomplish what you set out to do, no matter how mundane, is truly something. Somehow 'old school' just works. Get up at a set time, make the bed, do those exercises for the day, attend to everything you need to make life better for all your housemates sharing a space. Receiving a group call from two wise and young friends just put the extra yellow in my sunshine and enough courage to go get us something fresh for dinner from the grocery store. 

My list also included changing linen, going through the post store spray/strip/shower ritual 

and baking a sweet potato soufflé, make the beds and yet again disinfect the kitchen surfaces. 

Through it all I remember my friend who lives on a top floor with no grass to walk on and a tiny veranda that hardly gets any sun, and I say thank you for my small lawn. I remember to look up and see the patterns the clouds make and I say thanks for the air I breathe. In everything there is a positive and a negative, and a choice to be made between the two. When all is done and the day nears its end, contentment will lie in the result of that choice, not a ticked off list on the fridge. One of my friends messaged me with an inspired piece of prose of how God comes to us women whose job it is to always be busy. He sees us and if we just open our eyes we will see Him, even in the most ordinary places and things. What brings us face to face with divinity?  Knowing God's got this.