Covid, Christ, and a cancelled Scottish holiday.

 



As a teenager I watched the movie Braveheart (yes I know it is not historically accurate) and have ever since been enthralled by the idea of visiting Scotland sometime. Since then I have visited the UK a few times but have never really mad it up to Scotland. This year we finally made concrete plans. Besides just visiting Scotland we would be visiting friends who we have been waiting to meet for some time now. You can only imagine the excitement that had been built up to the day.

Then the day came! We were all packed and ready to go, when we got told that a friend my daughter had met a few days earlier had tested positive for Covid. Twenty four hours later we got the test results that my daughter had tested positive for Covid as well. It was much more than just inconvenient news. It was annoying and very disheartening. But here’s the thing – we did not have any major discussions or any back and forth debates. As soon as the message said “Covid positive” the decision to cancel was made. It did not matter how much I had been waiting for this. It did not matter how much planning went in to this holiday. We love the friends we were waiting to meet but there was no way we were going to head to their homes or anywhere else while carrying an extremely contagious and harmful sickness with us. Our full conviction that Covid is highly contagious and can be distressing and even fatal to some made that decision to cancel easier for us. It was a no brainer – everything stood cancelled and we would not expose anyone to this.

As I sat home and waded through the disappointment of the cancelled holiday another thought began to hold my mind. The strength of my belief in all the negatives and dangers of Covid made me not want to give it to anyone else. As a result I am here doing as much as I can to make sure no one catches it from our family. If I flipped this truth to me and the gospel of Christ I am found asking myself the question “does the strength of my belief in the immense blessings of the gospel of Christ compel me to get out there and be contagious?” I am found asking God for the conviction to do whatever I can to be a Christ honouring and gospel centered blessing to others. I am found challenged by the truth that if I can be so intentional and serious about Covid that causes temporary suffering in the body then how much more intentional and serious ought I to be about Jesus who brings victory to this body and eternal glory to the soul.


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Amos said…
Beautiful thought and challenging! Thank you for penning this.
August 31, 2021 at 5:26 AM
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