I will admit that being in confinement due to COVID-19 for this long has been tiring. We started this whole thing a few days after France, and months later, we are still at it. I started this time thinking that God had many things for me, and yet today, we’re not done. I know that I have been able to evolve a lot, but probably not the way I wanted to. I feel like I could have done more, but I don’t know how I am going to make it.
After beginning Stage 2 of reopening the province, you couldn’t imagine my joy! I missed human contact. I have had the opportunity to visit a family a few times, quarantined for 7 to 13 days, not going out of the house at all, simply to make sure I would not contaminate anybody, even though I was showing no symptoms. It’s been hard, it has been long and honestly, as much as I know that slowly going back to normal seems attractive, I think I’m going to miss it. I think I’m going to miss having so much time by myself not doing anything more but writing this blog, talking to the students from church almost every night and having my young adults meeting on Saturday nights. And having time to cook, to discover new recipes. I’m quite happy about it. I definitely miss my friends, but questioning my faith, my spirituality, how I live it, how I personally experience the Holy Spirit in my daily life... This is worth everything. Because people will pass, things from this world will pass. But God’s Word won’t. And it is really really important for me to grow in this domain of my life and learn how to please God in the best way I can. One of my friends posted a video on Youtube explaining she is grieving and has been grieving 2020. This is sad. And honestly, I understand her. Many of us had plans, everyone passing important milestones - I can’t count how many of my friends graduated or started a new step of their lives, sometimes even both - I know many couples in my church who welcomed a new family member through weddings and births without me being there to support, encourage or congratulate them! So, I completely understand the grief in all of this. However, at the same time, it was time to go back to the essentials. The basics of life. I think that this time of quarantine had to show us what matters in our lives. And to show us what to put again at the center. As I am writing, 2020 is not over yet. You might read this article years later, and I know I planned it for early January 2021. But it doesn’t change the point. I learned things during these times. I learned how to be present for those I can’t see, I learned how to take care of myself without having anybody around me, I learned, as a quite lazy person I admit, why exercising is so important for my health, I learned that all of the people who surround me are not necessarily worth fighting for. And I learned how to love. I became friends with a person that I had never seen before through a common friend. And I believe that, even though I believe that in a relationship, everything is important, this new and fresh friendship showed me that the most important thing is to be present for people and to love them with everything we have. Now, what can I add? What could I teach you? What could I share with you? I mean, you probably realized that I haven’t used a Bible verse yet! I already shared with you almost everything I know about love, we have shared what you are supposed to do for the people around you and we told you about how to inspire and impact the people around you. So here it is: use every single moment of your life to please God. Paul will ask Timothy to “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses” (1 Timothy 6:12). Later on, the writer of the book of Hebrews will say “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1). No matter how you lived 2020, maybe with a feeling of failure or on the contrary of success, I encourage you to live this new year of 2021 in the goal of pursuing God’s will and fight the good fight. Wishing you an abundance of blessings and a great year, Do
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Hi! Brand new day but quite a redundant topic given everything we have been talking about during these past few weeks, but it’s alright. I believe that the Holy Spirit speaks to my heart for a good reason, you might need or appreciate it. At least, discovering more and more about God’s love fuels me on my spiritual journey. I hope it is the same for you. I selected two passages that showed me God’s love for us; how the Father loves us. They show us how powerful and unconditional His love is. And before we get further, I would love to let you meditate on them:
This is the Father’s love for us. You can take a minute to praise Him for this. Indeed, Peter realized how humiliating it was for Jesus to wash his feet. Yet the Bible says it was the full extent of Jesus’ love for us. Pure and perfect humiliation with no one to save Him. The first time out of necessity to allow His disciples to be pure. The second one, a public humiliation at the view of the entire city and to anyone who would want to see the show. Jesus, publicly naked, suffering for you and me. In order to bring a perfect reconciliation between the Father and us. This is the full extent of a powerful, reckless, selfless Love for human beings who rejected Him, who deliberately forsook Him. When the only thing we deserved was death because we put Him away from us, away from our hearts and our minds, God reached out to us with the only intent to bring us back to Him. Am I writing an article to call you to give your heart to Jesus? Probably. Is it where I was going with it originally? Honestly, no. But we will definitely continue on our original topic next time. Now, back to our main subject. I believe that there is one thing that we need to remember. It is that no one, absolutely no one, deserves the love that has been offered to us this whole time, for centuries. I know I am repeating it, but as I told you before, love gives everything. Including pride and honour. Because in the end, the love God has for us is able to make us better and how He desires if we submit to His will. So, here’s my point for this week. Realize God’s love for you. Consider what it was asking from Him. Consider the sacrifice. And look around you. What is the greatest demonstration of love you have ever received from men? And how have you experienced the full extent of Christ’s love for you? I will let you meditate on this and will come back in about a month to finish off with this topic. For now at least… Have a blessed week, With all of my affection, Do |
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