Let’s do this well together

“For I know the plans that I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for calamity, to give you a future and a hope”.

Jeremiah 29:11

Later this week my husband Clive and I should have been heading off to Valencia in Spain to see our son Joel and to watch him perform in the Opera House there.
As the next few months go by, a great many people will be saying, “I should be heading off to ….. today”, yet like us, they will have to console themselves with planning for a different holiday at some point in the future, and even then not knowing if that too will unravel.
I’m learning to appreciate the present time and to hold future plans very lightly. There is a strange kind of freedom in doing this. I have no expectations which can be thwarted or end in disappointment, but that is not to say I don’t have hope. Hope is precious, and indeed so precious that in times like the present, it should be invested in the most important things in life and not the trivia. I hope that I’ll still see the lovely city of Valencia, and hear Joel sing in its Opera House, but I hope even more that I will see all my family again in the flesh, even sooner. I hope that an effective vaccine will be found to protect us all against this virus. As a Christian, my hope is centred on God and His plans for me, plans which will not be thwarted by a pandemic, an economic crisis, an earthquake or any other event.