Who will you become?

As we have started a new week and another week in this “stay home”quarantine I want to ask you to take time to reflect on what has changed in you? Are you still the same person as you were in March? Are you a better version? Or maybe you have headed in the opposite direction? How will you allow this time to affect you and your family? I hear a lot of people say they can’t wait until we get back to normal. Friends, I don’t know if we will go back to normal. Yes a new normal, but I don’t believe we will go back to the old normal. The world has been altered by this virus. Many may not believe our leaders have done the right things, but I ask you to instead focus some of the energy spent on the leaders to be spent on you instead. How can you change and change for the better? What small things can you make new habits? I hope that this time has many of you going back to writing old fashioned letters. I use to love getting letters from my grandma in the mail. I still have many of the letters and cards she sent me. I hope that if you are a person of faith that you have dived into the Word more and have sat in quiet to hear what the Lord is trying to say to you. I hope you have organized and cleaned like no other spring cleaning before. Maybe you have even thought about a bad habit you want to rid yourself of and a good habit you want to start. Maybe you went through some old photos or maybe you have started journaling your thoughts and feelings. Whatever it is, I hope when this is all said and done you can reflect back on the person you were at the start of 2020 and then look at who you are after we come out of this quarantine; and be in awe of how you have grown and who you have become. That you are not looking back at the time thinking wow I was just stuck in the negativity of it all, stuck on all the things I couldn’t do, or the places I couldn’t go, or the people I couldn’t see. Friends, I hope you will fight for joy for you and your family. You and they deserve it. It’s not how any of us thought this year would go, but we still have time to make the best of what we can. We can learn and grow. I truly do hope you come out of this quarantine a better you and with a solid definition of who you be. Who will you become during COVID-19?