Number the Days

Is there a way of numbering the COVID days? Let’s say that this is day 4. We’ll start the numbering with Monday of this week, though that’s not quite accurate. It’s been longer than that already.

I am getting used to my “Mornings with Justin”. Each morning, our Prime Minister emerges from his house and gives an update. It’s not the “regular update”. That takes place at noon eastern time each day. These morning updates are pretty much just a leader trying to console and comfort a nation.
Justin seems to like the role. He is trying to embrace it. And we do need the comforting.

What has patterned your days? Are your hours ordered by the rolling updates? “Mornings with Justin” sometime around 7:30 or 8. Then Trump (don’t get me started) tells America how great Trump is and what a great job Trump is doing and how he knows so much about so many things including viruses (don’t get me started). Then the Ontario update, then sometime in the afternoon the BC update.

 None of us used to order our days this way. We are reaching for something better to give our hours their punctuation. I had a Zoom call with three friends last night and it felt so good, just to see their faces.

Pretty much every single person I have spoken with has cancelled something, a trip, a job, definitely some appointments. This is not the schedule that we thought we would be living.

So we fall into it. We reach towards a way of giving the hours an order by which we can live hopefully.

We are told, in Scripture, that God orders our days. When David prayers his now famous prayer about being known by God he says, “before a word is on my tongue, you know it completely.” He says that God knew him before he was even formed.

I might not know the order of my hours and days right now, but I trust, with all of my heart, that God does.

Read the Psalm. There’s so much in it.

Like this,

“Even if I think that the darkness will overwhelm me. It will not be dark to you. For darkness is as light to you.”

 I love you, Lord.

Amen.