To say this year has been a little challenging is an understatement, let’s make that the last couple of years! I sit here next to our Christmas tree and ponder, just how we made it this far. Life has thrown more curve balls at us then I care to remember. But you know what? We are still here! Together and still standing!
For whatever reason it seems like Christmas is a time for reminiscing. A time to reflect over the year that is about to close and hopefully look toward the new year with anticipation, hope and optimism; that this year will be better.
I won’t lie and pretend this was the best year of my life but neither was it the worse. I still struggled with mental illness, Lauren still endured many challenges, Logan was your typical little boy and knew he had a special place in our little family. And Mommy had to fight many of life’s obstacles with strength she didn’t even know she had. There were many days we wondered how we could survive when we felt many times that life itself was swallowing us up and we could barely keep going. But we did! And we will!
I believe one of the most challenging and consuming evils that has controlled our world and lives was not necessarily Covid itself but the diverse attitudes of hate and divisions it devoured our world with. It was not treated as the universal pandemic and health crisis that it really was but it became a platform for political and human rights protests that it was never intended to be. We are fighting for our lives, it’s nothing political but everything about ending this worldwide health crisis once and for all. This evil has divided our world, crushed our nations and destroyed families; not with the virus itself but by the distorted ‘facts’ of a corrupt world. The vaccines are NOT poison but a defence against a virus that can and have killed millions. It’s time for it all to stop and only us as a nation, a world, that realizes we need to turn to God, who alone can destroy this evil that it has become!
Now we settle into another winter of uncertainty and uneasiness, because none of us know what this next variant will bring, only time will tell. Maybe we should be like the bears and hibernate until this whole mess is over and awake to Spring’s new life, new hope. So let’s say goodbye to 2021 and welcome 2022 with a new hope, a fresh start, a new beginning!