reckoning

It’s so interesting but it seems like many of us, with objectively different life circumstances, are facing similar feelings and deeper heart issues in these days. “Quarantine”, whatever that even means for you, has disrupted many of the structures of our lives. It’s left us to face things to which we otherwise may have remained delightfully distracted.

Even knowing and already having reckoned with our circumstances in the past, it’s still hard to face a new facet of them in a new light. The work of freedom and healing in truth done before was genuine, but there’s just a new light being shed as some of the layers of life have been lifted and removed. 

And underneath, even from those with seemingly opposite lives, I hear many of our hearts reckoning with the same cries. Longing for deeper purpose, or just any sense of purpose. Or feeling stuck. Grieving what we hoped for but is not.

With or without other people. With or without family. With or without work. With or without children. With or without…

A reason we can all face similar underlying questions and feelings when we’re in vastly different, even opposite, scenarios is that at a deeper level, our hearts all need the same things.

Let us reckon with and in these days.