The end of another month.
All of 2020 & especially since March,
the pandemic has consumed us all.
Whether we’re infected with covid-19
or just the fear & isolation & pandemonia,
it surrounds and encapsulates.
The ants still scurry back & forth
doing their work.
The birds still fly & sing.
The possum still sleeps, or so we think.
The lion stands proud & high
& doesn’t need to roar.
The world has pivoted on its axis.
A slight tilt of a half degree
otherwise unnoticed but for
the constant faint sound, just beyond
our hearing, almost heard.
The swoosh, swoosh,
air in & out of respirators,
keeping some of us alive for a while.
“For a mere moment
I have forsaken you,
but with great mercies
I will gather you….
For the mountains shall depart
and the hills be removed,
but my kindness
shall not depart from you….
Behold, I have created the blacksmith
who blows the coals in the fire,
who brings forth an instrument
for his work;
I have created the spoiler to destroy.
No weapon formed against you
shall prosper,
& every tongue that
rises against you in judgment,
you shall condemn.” Isaiah 54:7, 10, 16-17.
We are not abandoned
or left to fight alone.
The battle rages beyond
the reach, outside the pall
of the pandemic.
We were caught unprepared
& off guard,
thrown to the ground
& down for the count.
But Jehovah the Lord
saw this coming from
before the clock started.
His blacksmith has
wrought out of the fire
the weapon to destroy
the enemy, melt his veneer
of lies and mirrors,
vaporize his disease.
“As wax melts before the fire,
so let the wicked perish
at the presence of God.” Psalm 68:2.
Amen & amen.
So You Will Know 