Anyone interested in a joust? …”Trying to find a hobby that meets the government rules on social distancing.”
“Harness the horses, mount the steeds! Take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears, put on your armor!” Jeremiah 46:4 (NIV)
This past weekend our church did a service revolving around a 2020 recap. There were a few testimonials of people discussing what they’ve learned from 2020, how the year has been impactful for them, or what God had done for them over the past year. It got me to thinking… “How WOULD I recap this past year?”
One of our yearly Christmas traditions came to mind as I was thinking about this. Each year at Christmas we get each of our kids a Christmas ornament for that year. These ornaments usually reflect an event or milestone or memory from the year. This year as I was shopping for their ornament, I knew I wanted it to be 2020 related but not just referring to all of the COVID-19 stuff as so many of them were. I wanted it to reflect the many, many crazy events that took place during 2020—a kind of a 2020 recap on the ornament.
I ended up settling on a type of word cloud ornament. As I was reading through all of the items listed on the ornament, I found myself saying, “Oh yeah, I forgot about that.” It had things like Kobe Bryant’s death, the Australian fires, travel bans, birthday parades, virtual graduations, virtual meetings, distance learning, of course the whole Coronavirus pandemic themed things (quarantine, panic buying, toilet paper shortage, social distancing, face masks, front line heroes and essential workers, etc.), murder hornets, the Beirut explosion, and BLM protests. (It was missing the whole presidential election fiasco which was odd.) It did seem to sum up events of the year pretty well.
While this was a great 2020 recap of the year’s events, it still wasn’t a very personal reflection of the year. I thought about how my mom often does this in her Christmas or end-of-year letters where she summarizes the whole family’s yearly goings-on. So, I started to make a list (although not completely comprehensive)… Continue reading
Can we all agree that in 2015 not a single person got the answer correct to “where do you see yourself in five years from now?” 🙂
“Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come.” Daniel 10:14 (NIV)
My mom sent this funny to me… “Question for my essential oil friends. Which oil calms housebound family members down? Chloroform? It’s chloroform, isn’t it?”
“Therefore, since these facts are undeniable, you ought to calm down and not do anything rash.” Acts 19:36 (NIV)
Apparently at Murphys Irish Bar in Spain, the sweet love ballad by Neil Diamond is banned… “Due to COVID-19 Sweet Caroline is banned. There will be no: touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.” Clever. 🙂
“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”?” Colossians 2:21 (NIV)
Statements of 2020…Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d go up to a bank teller with a mask on asking for money.
“She lies in wait like a robber…” Proverbs 23:28a (NLT)
Here’s a meme that was shared in one of my recent faculty emails. The 2020 memes have been giving me a good laugh lately!
“…See, this is getting us nowhere…” John 12:19 (NIV)
Love this meme… “I feel like, at the end of each month in 2020, an Oompa Lumpa should come out and sing us a song about a lesson we should’ve learned over the past 30 days… but did NOT.”
“Therefore, he poured out his fury on them and destroyed them in battle. They were enveloped in flames, but they still refused to understand. They were consumed by fire, but they did not learn their lesson.” Isaiah 42:25 (NLT)
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