The Year of Our Lord

By Mary

They say the days are long but the years are short, when it comes to raising little ones. It's true. And while unrelated to raising children (I think?), apparently  I also have very little sense of the passage of time, because I was quite shocked at how far back I had to go to find my last post on this blog.

But here I am again. A thought has been lodged firmly in the back of my mind, though it's been months probably since it first entered my head and I thought now would be as good a time as any to share it. 

I was driving alone--driving alone having become a much less rare occasion since the world went topsy turvy in the late winter months. My husband usually works half days and stays home with the kids when I shop for groceries. A friend had posted online, saying something along the lines of "be kind, no one is having a great year." Countless memes also passed through my head, ones that had entertained me with their dark humor over the train wreck the year 2020 was shaping up to be. One in particular was in my mind, something like--

3,500 B.C. Mankind invented the wheel.A.D. 1903 Mankind's first flight.A.D. 2020 Mankind learns how to wash their hands. 

A.D. 2020, I thought. What a year. 

But that little "A.D." tacked on at the beginning really captured my thoughts...anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.

It's still His year. No matter what's happening or isn't happening, it's in His hands, accomplishing His purpose and drawing us ever closer to the Day of the Lord.

"Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to His promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." 2 Peter 3:11-13

Let us be found living a life of holiness and godliness. Hasten the day!