by Kevin Wimbish, LMFT
At the beginning of this year, there was a lot of talk about 2020. Sight. Clarity. Vision. Then, Coronavirus. COVID-19. Sickness came. Stores closed. Worries abound.
Often I discourage the “What Ifs.” What if a loved one gets sick? What if I didn’t save enough? What if this goes on indefinitely? All “What Ifs” that can lead us down dark paths.
But, What If, this is still the year to see clearly?
What if we see the hard work our spouses put into making work and school and dishes and laundry and… run smoothly?
What if we see our colleagues adjust and shift and support one another in ways that “normal life” didn’t invite?
What if we see technology used to connect people to church who may not have initially wanted to walk through the doors?
What if we see our children get so tired of screens that they run around outside, build “forts,” and laugh and play in ways it seemed our culture had lost?
What if we see a strength has been awakened in others and ourselves that we didn’t know we had until we were pushed to exemplify it.
What if God helps us to see that many of the things in which we found our hope were fleeting, faint, and illusory?
What if this is still the year of Vision? Maybe we just couldn’t see it at first.
Be Thou My Vision – Audrey Assad
