21 Things I Have Learned From the Year 2020

I’VE LEARNED THAT:

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1. God is the only One that I can trust. Period.
2. I have everything I need as long as I have God and my family.
3. Tomorrow is not promised. COVID has proven that. Don’t waste time.
4. I must find ways to love people…TODAY. However that looks.
5. Kindness does not cost much….just one’s ego.
6. The greatness of a country is not how wealthy or economically stable it is, but rather, how that country treats its PEOPLE.
7. The word “unprecedented” has been used so much this year, it is now unremarkable and all too familiar. (Time to find another word………)
8. I am GRATEFUL for essential workers like the military, doctors, nurses, all medical care professionals and hospital staff; but I am even more grateful for those who work in supermarkets, local stores and restaurants, school custodians, caseworkers and crisis workers. Teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school secretaries. Postal workers, delivery drivers, O&R and Con Ed workers, bus and train drivers. (Should I go on?… There are no words.)
9. The United States isn’t as “united” as one would think. Maybe we should be called “The Divided States of America”?
10. I miss seeing people smile. But I will wear this mask for the rest of my life if it means it will keep others safe.
11. Reckoning inevitably comes. The architects of oppression, terrorism and genocide will have to give an account at some point.
12. The Church will have to answer for its silence during oppression, terrorism and genocide in our history.
13. Along with social injustice, the pandemic also revealed my own biases and prejudices. Not a pretty sight, I might add.
14. I’ve got an oak tree in my eye, so I don’t have time to take out the branch in yours.
15. Abortion is genocide in the womb, while terrorism and lynching is genocide outside of the womb. All those lives matter.
16. Somehow I think we all have been duped this year. Somebody, somewhere has benefitted from this chaos.
17. It is EXHAUSTING being a “Black” person in America!! (It’s a Black thing. Some wouldn’t understand.)
18. Though exhausting and infuriating at times……I wouldn’t trade being a Black person in America for all the money in the world. I’ve never loved my “Blackness” more than today.
19. Our inability to follow the arrows in the supermarkets to keep distance and safety is an indication of how stubborn we are about this pandemic. I’ve never been more frustrated with people. (It took all of God’s grace not to yell and curse out my fellow shoppers!! But the image of my being arrested for fighting in Shoprite calmed me down, though…)
20. Jesus Christ must understand what it is to be “Black” in this world. “He was despised and rejected of men. A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief”. (Isaiah 53:3) If ever there was a people who have been (and still are at times) despised and rejected in this world…….
21. Hmmm…..This is why I can trust Him. Period.