Covid in the Rear View

A time is coming, and soon, when what we see upfront shall be a memory. With each curative needle puncture in a person's arm, there appears to be light at the end of the agonising tunnel. Soon the pain of covid will hopefully be relegated to the annals of our shared history. But what will it all have been for if we never learned the lessons?

In her Speech in April 2020, Her Majesty the Queen said she hoped in years to come everyone would be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. She said the pride in who we are is not a part of our past it defines our present and our future. And many have risen to the challenge with inspiring acts of love and selflessness that ministers to many in need. A legacy of sacrifice has been created that we pray outlives the next generation. However, amid the tears of loss and the yearning for a return to 'normal' have we learned the lessons? Do we truly desire to return to the selfishness and recklessness that characterised our pre-covid world?

Each crisis humanity faces whether in times of war or pestilence is a tutorial for life. Covid has revealed to us just how vulnerable we are as a species and how something invisible and intangible can exert so much influence over our world. The Queen's call for us to pause and reflect in prayer provided a road map for transformation. So if we outlive covid what then? What will we be? Will we aspire to something higher or return to ambitions that are dire? If we can believe in something we cannot see, that's impacting our world, what's stopping us believing in a God who expresses Himself through love? It's not too late to pause, reflect and pray.