Are you waking up each day just to realize again that you weren’t actually having a nightmare, but the world is still living in a time of self-isolation as much as possible to prevent the rapid spread of the Coronavirus/COVID-19? Each day can seem to blend into the next, and you may wonder, “When will the end be in sight?” “When can we get back to real life as we know it?” “Why is this lasting so long?”
It isn’t easy to have things be so out of our control. We, as humans, pretty much like feeling that we have most of the answers and control over our destinies. It’s not fun to feel stuck, uncertain, and overwhelmed. We weren’t meant to live in limbo. We don’t know what to do with limbo. How low can you go? Well, honestly, humans can get pretty depressed and anxious when things don’t go as we think they should, wish they would, or when they don’t follow our preferred timeframe.
A passage from the Bible can help:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Matthew 6:25-34.
Did you catch that last couple of sentences? They tell us that we are not to worry about things that may or may not happen tomorrow (and this can be applied to the future in general), as there is enough today, each day for us to address.
Maybe, the key to surviving the self-isolation in the time of Coronavirus/COVID-19 is choosing not to concern ourselves with when things will get back to normal but to continue to focus on that which is currently ours to address; today.
Ask Yourself:
- What will I focus on today?
- What can I do today?
- How can I make the most of today?
- What can I find to appreciate about today?
God gave us a naturally contained timeframe to work within. Each brand new day starts with possibilities. Carpe Diem!
