Everything
In 2020, I’d have laughed in the faces of anyone who told me that we would still be amidst this pandemic after two years, but here we are. While I, like the rest of the world, eagerly anticipate the end of this debacle, I am thankful for the divine protection and prevention throughout.
2018, B.C., the actuality of energy crashed down on me while talking to an old friend by phone; I revealed that humans are incapable and even non-existent without spirituality. Despite my strong feelings, his silence blared, and we changed the subject, but in these present times, the significance of energy consumes my thoughts more than most things.
The pandemic only solidifies what I tried to get my friend to see and what I needed to remember: everything is a gift, not a luxury, and it takes energy we don’t innately possess to function in all we do, and yet, we are such an entitled people. We believe things will always be available to us; therefore, we belittle the most significant and give importance to the unimportant.
Not until something gets taken away do we learn to appreciate it; before March 2020, I never thought twice about going outside to feel the sunshine and take a deep breath of fresh air and not wonder what was waiting for me in the wind that I could not see. Or being around others and pondering where they had been or with whom before me and where those people had been; I never hesitated to embrace friends and family.
The only times in life I could not smell were after too many whiffs of candle scents while shopping for new ones or when I had a cold that came, went after a few days, and my sense returned to me. Aghast at learning some people recovered from the virus so long ago but still cannot smell, taste, or breathe on their own, I began appreciating everything I still had and could do. My prayer life became elaborate, and I praised our Creator for things I had never once uttered before.
As I said in my Rainy Days blog post, our lives are a multitude of moments and, in an instant, can be unrecognizable to us. I am grateful for every moment I can smell, taste, touch, hear, see, and that I have an able body, a cute car, a wonderful job, family, and a contingent of real friends. While what I say is not new, it is titanic once examined and considered; it is also humbling to receive grace, mercy, and favor that I do not deserve daily from the Spirit from whom all life and good things flow.
I understand that scripture now, ‘I will bless the Lord at all times.’ To me, it does not mean we praise and worship 24/7, but that no matter the day or moment we are having, be it good or bad, if we are thankful, it shows Him that we appreciate what we have and in His time, He blesses us with more. I must point out that we should not extol our Creator to get things from Him, but because it is the right thing to do, we cease to exist without Him.
We cannot bend a finger nor bat an eyelash without that energy, which is Him; so, in everything, give thanks, because not only could things be worse, but even in individual and collective troubled times, we are protected.
