I remember January 2020, watching the news early in the morning. I saw so many people sick and the virus spreading all over the world. I remember how the spread began with so many people traveling and trying to get home and get well all over the world, but it was too late. Too many people had been exposed.
I was working from home at the time, and it evoked so much fear in me. I tried to seek refuge at home with my family but to no avail. I worked so much, and the isolation began to get so overwhelming. We were all watching the world fall apart right before our eyes. So many of us were losing those we loved and had known for years.
I began to feel like I could not make it living alone so I tried going home again and it still did not work. I got Covid and it made my mental health symptoms worse. I spent a month in the hospital trying to recover. There was no longer a job or my own place to go back to.
I stayed with my grandmother for almost a year. Then it was time to pick up the pieces of my life. I got my own place again in 2021. Later that year my grandmother began to get sick and that hurt because I was losing my rock. I thought God what are you doing? Leaning on her gave me the ability to start putting my life back together again.
Later in 2022 I faced legal issues trying to work and increase my independence and financial stability. I thought then and even now when I would catch a break. I was so depressed I thought of giving up. Through it all I prayed, and God kept making a way.
In 2023 things changed for the better and I began to see what God was doing. He was clearing a path for me to grow and mature into the person He wanted me to be. Sometimes if there are no growing pains there is no growth.
The enemy played a part in a lot of the things I faced, but God was faithful through it all. He is a solid foundation we can stand on. When family and friends fail, we can stand on His word faithfully. The scriptures I held on to the most were “greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world” and “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (1 John 4:4 and Philippians 4:13).
It has been an uphill and downhill battle for so many of us since the pandemic. One thing remains constant God is a sustaining God. He is a solid foundation that we can build on and He restores all things in His timing. Faith, prayer, trusting God, and fasting changes everything.
Keep working on your dreams. I’m still putting my life back together, facing financial struggles, and building a career with stained glass but God is giving me new glass to build from. The pandemic changed many lives but with God we can still reach our dreams and thrive.
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