Not on my own. The words we need today, aren’t they?
Because aren’t we each feeling a little alone? A little isolated? Overwhelmed? My word for how I am feeling is discombobulated. I’m an introvert, but the separation still feels surreal.
Some of my community focused on these words, “not on my own” from Proverbs 3:5 recently at a women’s retreat, and I feel that theme had to have been God ordained. We were thinking of sisterhood, and how we all need each other even in the different roles, life stages, personalities and jobs that might divide us. Never did we think of being separated in order to protect ourselves and our loved ones from a virus.
And yet here we are. Each of us doing our part to keep the numbers low enough that our dear sisters and brothers in the medical field can do their jobs well.
And yet, none of us is on her own.
We have our phones to text each other, our screens to worship together, and our imagination to think up new, safe ways to communicate our sisterhood. While that is all good, it would never be enough without the unbreakable cord of faith, the ever-present Spirit of God that binds us all together no matter our circumstances today.
So we are taking a break from prayers from Jeremiah until I get to the other side of this section where God’s people are rebellious and stubborn. Because our community- we refuse to buy Satan’s lies that God is turning his face away, or that we are alone and unseen or unwanted.
Our community is coming together to pray in online churches and at the ends of our driveways. In Facebook groups and text chats. We are looking for and finding ways to meet the needs of those around us, and we are praising God for his good faithfulness.
Let’s continue to pray that our eyes would be open to the ways we can love and support each other, so that each can say… I am not on my own. We have our sisters, and God has us.
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