Reflections on 2021: this One Thing Remains

This One Thing Remains

To everything there is a season,

and a time to every purpose under the heaven

Time to be quiet

Unpack the content of the heart,

Like last year’s Christmas decoration

Motives, desires, future hopes, present quests and past dreams

All glaring, asking to be acknowledged

Every experience ignored requesting to be seen and heard.

No longer willing to be shoved aside

Demanding to be released

Sunny dispositions and borderline denials

Could no longer mask the ugly truth

Priorities disheveled

Every source of comfort poof, disappeared,

Even the church shut its doors

Forced to face the stillness

Behold, it was time to get to the basics

Befriend the uncertainties

The light masked in darkness

Time to finally see what truly mattered,

The bare necessities

Food, Shelter, God and Family

Everything else truly is vanity

Time to look within

What has filled your Jar, your foundation?

Rocks - Family, God given destiny

Pebbles - what matters just slightly

Or Sand -life full of meaningless activity?

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven

Perhaps it is a time to pluck up which is planted, perhaps it is time to plant again

Perhaps NOW is the time to empty out the Jar, and put things in Divine Order.