Lockdown 109

Lockdown Day 109 - 13 July 2020

And so Mr. Prez spoke again. 

Just like a writer whose muse has left, I could only write that sentence. I sat staring at the screen. Because that sentence says it all. We all know by now what happened and how our lives suddenly feel invaded again by whatever regulation we didn't see coming. 

I wonder if a return to level 4 wouldn't have been better. It felt as if Lockdown started all over again. But then I remembered, we're already in it!  With no place to go. Except maybe a day trip somewhere in our own province (yes, according to level 3 regulations we are allowed to). We are hijacked by an abominable virus. All of us. The whole world. Even the countries who are now "open".  

All of this reminds me of Hitler who gave his prisoners hope to keep them alive, just before demolishing the hope, so he could break their spirit. Maybe this is why Corrie ten Boom's quotes so deeply speak to my spirit. She bore the unthinkable, but still chose to relinquish all control into God's hands. One of the things she said was, "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that, I still possess."

This, today, is what I needed to do. Again. To place my thoughts, my work, my dreams, my future, my issues and my no control back into God's hands. There it aligns with Him, His Spirit and will. This is the way forward. His thoughts become mine, I work where He works, I dream what He dreams and His future becomes mine. The control is His. 

Because He knows what He wants for me, as His Word in Jeremiah 29:11-13 says, " "I know the plans that I have in mind for you,” declares Adonai, “plans for shalom and not calamity—to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call on Me, and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find me, when you will seek Me with all your heart." " 

I shall take Him up on His Word and seek Him and believe with all my heart that if I keep talking to Him, His shalom, future and hope will find me.

And yes, God's got this firmly and securely.