2020 is All Weakness, All Strength

    

 

      2020 is an "all-weakness" year. Everyone has been shocked and overthrown by all of the unexpected stuff no one has imagined: The job people is counting on suddenly closes; strong, dependable people died; the well-organized and extremely careful person contracts the Covid-19 virus and gets seriously ill; the economy seem to be collapsing; various calamity and tragedies strike; the government shows more evidence of its incompetence; or wounds show to be unhealed when you thought you've been healed but shown otherwise -

"Sometimes the heart needs to heal enough from the trauma before engaging...  Be well and honor your heart's process... Holy Spirit guide you but never lose sight of our Father's love through the process..." -Tita Virmi

YET each of us perseveres to survive amidst the pandemic in the midst of all forms of human and personal weaknesses revealed before us in a whole new array it its reality and entirety. Overwhelming.

Some were able to work in the immense pressure under grace, some just under their best effort hoping that their less-than-the-ideal self will be enough, some have succumbed to the immense pressure in anger, despair or revenge. Maybe like me, you're mostly falling on the 2nd or 3rd category; YET in spite of all the weaknesses we've encountered and experienced this year, the fact that we've made it through 2020 (YES WE'LL MAKE IT) to 2021 is a testament that "in all-weakness is all-power".  When human efforts start to fail, a greater Power starts to work to sustain. It's a long, often tedious journey to find out how that happens or works especially on a personal level, but maybe that's what 2020 and 2021 is all about: there can be all-Power in all-weakness. The Father carries His dead-tired child towards their destination until the morning comes and until she has regained her energy to go on walking the next mile. Perhaps this is what everyone needs to learn, and what the whole world, exactly needs to learn for the coming year.


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