So much has changed in the last couple weeks.
We’ve gone from busy routines, activities, appointments, and on-the-go lifestyles, to safer-at-home lifestyles. Seriously, at the beginning of last week I was going to business meetings, spearheading projects, meeting friends and family for appointments and outings, and enjoying every moment. I’ve said before that my favorite part of working at home, is going out! Yes, that is me. These last couple weeks have been a challenge as my routines of going and doing have shifted to staying and doing. I have used the white out pen to slowly white out meeting after meeting, trips out of the country, and social events on my calendar until it has looked like a blanket of snow on the month of March. The social part of me has wanted to talk to the mail carrier when he has delivered packages to the door; but, I did not. The social part of me wanted to go work out at our gym (which is now closed); but, I did not. The social part of me wanted to volunteer to help with online services at church; but, I did not.
I have stayed home and have kept busy doing work at home. In fact, I am still in the midst of two big projects here! One is what I’ve called the *The Big Basement Clean Out and Up* which involved taking everything, yes every thing, out of the basement, and re-painting. Then will come the returning of everything to the basement. It is still an ongoing project. The other project involved paperwork and gathering information together for taxes. Neither of these projects involved groups of people, and this people person has been challenged. But, I did survive, and I will survive. And seriously, I know being asked to stay at home is not that big of a deal. I’ve gotten so many things done here at home.
There are so many positives to being at home more, too. I’m learning a bit more about technology. Thanks to a young friend, I now Marco Polo, which I’ve learned is not just a game that Tammy and I played with our friends while in the swimming pool as young children. I’ve had a phone meeting with a group of five from church that I would have normally driven to meet in person. And today, I am going to Zoom another meeting for the first time. I have never Zoomed before. I will have to let you know how that goes. I have also blogged more and used social media more because I’ve enjoyed the contact with my friends and family. There are so many ways to connect when you can’t meet in person. We really are a part of a blessed society.
I am so blessed to be able to be at home.
This week my church has a prayer and fasting focus, and each day has a specific area to cover in prayer, and Monday the focus was for healthcare workers. I am so thankful for our healthcare workers that go out to serve sacrificially, especially at times like this! So, I started praying for them.
I then asked on another form of social media if anyone had the name of a healthcare worker they’d like me to pray for by name, and at first it was easy to remember Tammy’s request for her daughter, Christina, and for Teresa’s Don and Lindsay; but, about ten people in, I knew I needed to write them down to have a good visual to pray as I go about my day. I now have many names of friends and family that are on the front lines as healthcare workers penned on sticky notes on my desk. This way I have a visual that I can take with me, since I don’t personally know everyone. And as I walk to the mail box, I can pray for Valerie and Alexia, and as I fold laundry I can take Rebekah and George and Jill with me to the laundry room, etc., to pray in the rhythm of quarantine life. Please know, healthcare workers, we are so very thankful for you.
You who go out, we who stay in, will pray for you.
Do you have the name of a healthcare worker you’d like me to pray for by name? If so, please share their name in the comments. Or would you join me in lifting healthcare workers up in prayer this week?
I am truly honored to pray. I am honored to be able to stay home. It’s a whole new perspective shift for me. There are workers that have to go out and I, am blessed to be able to be at home.
You who go out, we who stay in, will pray for you.
