Lockdown 7

Lockdown Day 7 - 2 April 2020 

I read somewhere that if you desperately want something you first need to give it away. In Lockdown terms I imagine by this time the whole world would say that something is freedom. Lockdown caused this principle in reverse. A virus (come on, really.......a virus!) forced us to give up our freedom, and now we desperately want our freedom most of all. Although the homebound feeling is actually growing on me because of the fact that I can determine my own pace to get everything done, I simultaneously wish I could be in two places at one time. And this is not necessarily a physical thing, this Lockdown moves into spaces where you have to become brave and bare your soul.

A “-Got-Talent” judge recently said to a contestant who confessed to be on the spectrum “If you can’t fit into this world you should create a new one”. What an inspirationally stupid thing to say to someone who is already in his own world. Yes yes, I am probably interpreting this all wrong, but I am going to have at it anyway: a new world in an old one? Is this what the creators of this virus was thinking? Or maybe they just wanted to annihilate the old one to see if the survivors could sustain a new one? Either way, they obviously have missed one very important truth: this world was designed by a Creator with something much bigger in mind. To stand in a relationship with its inhabitants across all boundaries of natural and spiritual laws. To see who is willing to risk it all for the ultimate freedom that surpasses earthly restrictions. To see who is desperate enough to drop it all for a life in eternity. 

I shall stop wasting time on trivialities and focus on what I can do now to secure heavenly treasures. I shall do my job to the best of my ability, walk the proverbial extra mile with an eternity-driven attitude of gratitude, give and give again until this Lockdown is done and the Corona virus is NOT anymore. 

I retire tonight with another little feather in my jar, inspiration for tomorrow. And I know for sure that God’s got this.