Lockdown 9

Lockdown Day 9 - 4 April 2020 

Last night I wrote about the 42 day principle. This is also true for changing a habit, for instance getting rid of a bad habit will take 42 days, whereafter the good habit you want to replace the bad one with also takes 42 days. So maybe this lockdown we can try to kickstart getting rid of one bad habit and simultaneously implement one good habit. Just look how quickly we got used to not touching our faces these last 2 weeks and virtually immediately mastered the hand sanitising routine. So any other bad habit could be sent packing as fast as you can say cheese, right? 

Today the rain subsided and the blue sky became dotted with woolly bright white clouds with the sun painting a mottled light pattern through the windows. While enjoying my coffee, I watched a reed buck and its calf venturing out of their hiding place to feed close to the little dam near our house. They were less skittish than usual and even playful, out in the open, something they never did in previous years. I wondered about how it would've been if us humans weren't here and they were free roaming like in the beginning. Taking a step back and zooming out in this time will most definitely reveal the effect of misplaced human superiority and the atrocities of a self centered human race. I once came across a vivid comic strip  illustration where a man is standing on a mountain, banging on his chest, shouting "I am god!" with a war cry sounding voice. In the next picture it is zoomed out from a higher mountain and suddenly this man looks smaller and his voice sounds less booming. In the next frame it is zoomed out from heaven and the archangel Michael is watching. He calls out to his friend, "Hey Gabriel, come look here!" They look down and see a minute figure sounding like a mouse, his claim to be 'god' barely audible. And then the angels roll over and laugh hysterically!

So keep the jokes coming everyone, they sometimes speak loudly to our heart. And maybe in the still of night we might be able to hear the rhythm of heaven softly chanting "God's got this".