I have been watching the tv show A Million Little Things for a couple of years now. I’ve not yet watched the last few episodes because the series is about a year behind us in history. This means that right now on the show chef Regina is concerned about shutting down her downtown Boston restaurant for 2 weeks. Maggie is dealing with not being able to return to Oxford to finish her internship and Ed is struggling with pain management as his nonessential appointment for a cortisone shot has been canceled. It’s too much and at the same time I’m grateful for these stories that I lived so recently being captured. I am starting to forget what it was like that first time I went on a walk and returned home after a few blocks. The eerie silence of our neighborhood combined with the shock of the free people I saw was overwhelming after weeks in the house.
We have adapted in so many ways over this year. I forget that Paige had to play piano one week for worship because we hadn’t yet figured out how to zoom together and stream that on Facebook. I forget that I did a whole month of worship form my back yard. We as people learn and adjust and move forward. It is something we will continue to do. Yet it is important to remember what it was like in those early days. It is important to realize how lucky we were who did not get sick and how much we came together as a community to care for each other in the unknown.
We will face other challenges in our lives and community. It’s important to learn from this challenge, to honor how hard this has all been, and to celebrate the ever adapting, ever learning, ever forward nature of humanity.
-Eilidh
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