One of the odd experiences of the last year has been to follow the Corona virus around the world, traveling on it’s heals from Asia to Europe to Africa. Thus we observed people hamster buy, get used to masks, go into lockdown (and run out of toilet paper) three times.
I remember talking to a friend in Germany when they had just gone into lockdown, just as Japan was emerging from its ‘first wave’ and restrictions were easing.
“What an opportunity.”, I said. “To be part of a generation that is forced to a standstill in their early thirties.”
“Until now, we’ve been so focused on becoming, achieving, arriving. Many of us got into a rut, if not a rat race. Many of us don’t like our ‘every days’ but sacrifice them on the altar of a ‘one day…’ Many of us have molded ourselves pathways that we run daily, but have stopped reflecting whether we want to go where that path leads, let alone if we even want to be people who run.”
What if we used this current crisis, the standstill and isolation, and yes, even the frustration and fear, to think about how we truly want to live as followers of Jesus.
And what if making disciples, living in the kingdom, reality and family of God became a more integrated part of our ‘every days’ as a result?
To the edge of the Earth 