Tik-Tok
This actually has absolutely nothing to do with a Tik-Tok, but that name is just so dang catchy. Well, I guess this time in our lives definitely does have us viewing the clock as if we can hear every tik-tok screaming from it. So, there’s the tie in.
Last week we had the opportunity to Zoom celebrate a dear friends birthday. Yes, it was a tad bit unusual, but we made the best of it. As I was scrolling through my phone to find the cutest, most flattering photos of us together to post in a full on IG story board, I began realizing that I had SO many photos in my phone. Like, thousands, literally. From my best hair cuts, funny pictures of my kids, sentimental moments shared with friends, and all the awkward, less flattering photos I send to my friends to show they are not alone in the wild circus called parenting. I assumed I would get sad looking at all the “before quarantined” life freedoms we had, but honestly, I felt as if it really was a whisper from the Holy Spirit that he would do even GREATER things in this next season. The thought was strange to me. I’m in a house, full of wild children, an antsy husband, with a new rhythm of uncertainty. Surely, this was the time to have a pity party about the good o’l days.
A few days after that prompting, I was nursing Rhema and I began to notice the length of her eyelashes, the depth of her big brown eyes, how thick her hair was growing in, and how she loves it when I play with her ears. Again, I felt another whisper that said, “all these details have been here all along, but you haven’t had the time nor the urgency to discover them”. Urgency to discover them. I said it over and over again to myself. Urgency to discover them… I’ve had a ton of urgency lately, but not in discovering the truth about whats been in front of me this entire time, We are consumed to the urgency of panic. At times, it really does feel inevitable to not feel the anxiety of everything happening around us. But, if we shift the discovery of our urgencies to good things, how much more will we see it in everything? How different would our prayers be? How quickly could our souls fill with gratitude if we fixated on these being the good o’l days?
So, this entry is dedicated to all of us. The ones at home dying to get back to “normal” life, the ones still trying to catch this new rhythm of abrupt adjustments, the ones really fighting for our peace. We are being fused together in a truly monumental way. The discoveries about ourselves, our priorities, all the things we may feel we took for granted. This is dedicated to the generation of Tik-Tok, Marco Polo, Zoomers, and boomers… Here is the time to be. Now is the time to pray. Today can be a new day of urgency discovery. Drop the worries in exchange for the beauty in the sky. Leave the pity at the doorstep and pick up the expectation that you will transformed during this time. We all feel the shift, we all feel the ache of connection, but that doesn’t mean we stop being innovative. I challenge you to even invite your kids on this journey with you. Let them build your imagination again. Let’s move forward to NEW things!
Isaiah 43:19 MSG
“Forget about what’s happened;
don’t keep going over old history.
Be alert, be present. I’m about to do
something brand-new.
It’s bursting out! Don’t you
see it? There it is! I’m
making a road through
the desert, rivers in the badlands.”
