Oh The Places We Have Been

 

Oh the places we have been –

from “So there’s some strange new virus in China” we wandered on to “OK, let’s all try and be a little bit cautious and wise”, before crashing into “My life has just been completely upended and I have no idea what is happening”

Oh the places we have been –

From feeling confident in planning our days, our weeks, the next few months – to living in the moment, because thinking ahead is scary and the world beyond today feels completely unpredictable.

Oh the places we have been –

From heads and hearts spinning, to camaraderie, to learning a new way of doing life, doing work, doing church. To wondering when this will ever end and what our world will look like by then.

Oh the places we have been –

Hope and despair. Courage and fear. Apathy and resilience, laughter and tears. Loneliness and connection, distant yet close. Going round and round, up and down, day after day after day.

Oh the places we have been –

in just a few short weeks. No wonder we’re feeling a bit battered and bruised. Longing for normal yet thankful for the special gifts of this season. Feeling fragile yet knowing more deeply that you are God. And we’re not.

Oh the places we’ll go –

we have no idea what they’ll be. Never did but we managed to fool ourselves. No longer.

Kyrie eleison, Lord have mercy.

 

 

Inspired by the video above which at first made me laugh, and then brought home what collectively we have all been through these past couple of months. What would my January self make of it all?!?!

Very loosely based on Dr Seuss, who had an amazing way with words.