What is Time?

How can we use this strange season to work for Shalom in our world?

Be sure to read my latest piece for Red Letter Christians just released today: “Untethered: Chronic Illness, Exile, and Finding Shalom in a Pandemic”

Last year about this time as I looked forward to 2020, I pictured many things for this year. I didn’t picture this. Time is strange. It expands and contracts in our perceptions. This season of pandemic life feels like each day is the same in some ways, and yet the seasons are still changing, moving inexorably forward, and as I am sitting in the same house or on the same porch day after day, it feels as though I am standing still and the seasons are revolving around me. Until it doesn’t and you get hit with the news of hurricanes and explosions or worse--you get hit with them--and then time moves too fast and it’s hard to keep up.   

On a personal note, I had so many plans for late 2020 in particular. I had been homeschooling my kids--well mainly my oldest, as my youngest is starting kindergarten this year--and I was looking forward to enro…