An Opportune Time

Here’s an opportune moment

To do some reflection,

A temporary distraction

From our constant projection.

We’ve been so obsessed

With our plans and projection

That we have spent little time

In serious reflection.

Not that we hadn’t planned

Or intended to do so

 But with things coming on stream

We couldn’t interrupt the flow.

Reflection is about the useless past

And we want to get ahead

So we project and endeavour

With sometimes little time for bed.

 

In this fast pace world

We cannot afford to slow down

But now with the advent of Covid-19

We have been proven wrong.

Things have slowed prodigiously

At home and abroad

And in countries large and small

Production has begun to fall.

Social gatherings have been limited

And the elderly confined indoors,

No doubt those who venture out

This is becoming a bore.

Some are working from at home

While schools have been closed off

Restaurants and hotels

Are suffering significant loss.

 

We could grumble and fret

We could complain and gripe

Or we could make the best of family

And in one another delight.

An opportunity to appreciate life

And the blessings God has given,

A chance to study His Word

And to become more enlightened.

So let’s focus on Almighty God

And trust Him to bring us through,

He is mightier that the mightiest virus

And there is nothing that He can’t do.

Stewart Russell © March 2020