A New Creation

Recently, while sharing and praying with a group of close friends via ZOOM, the conversation turned towards the impact the pandemic was having on each of us. Some expressed the feeling of carrying a huge weight on their shoulders for many months without being able to put it down, others were able to candidly say that confinement made it difficult to hide from the personal demons that haunt each of us, but that, until the pandemic, we were able to lock away in the closet. One person described her sense of loss of points of reference, as if none of the ones she previously could rely on remained and that she felt she would have to learn to see and do things in a completely different way after the pandemic.

The notions of tremendous pressure and things hidden away in darkness made me think of diamonds. A quick search on Google made me realize how inaccurate my knowledge of geology is: diamonds are not formed, as I thought, by a great amount of pressure exerted on coal.  

Another image that came to mind as I was dwelling on what my friends had said was the one found in the creation story in the book of Genesis:

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth — and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters — Then God said: Let there be light, and there was light.  God saw that the light was good. God then separated the light from the darkness. - Genesis 1, 1-4

Could it be that out of the topsy turvy world we are living in, out of this mighty wind that seems to be sweeping away all that seemed solid before, out of this darkness that we have been engulfed in for so many months, will emerge something dazzlingly new?

My heart is waiting with anticipation to finally see what the Spirit of God is doing right now. It will surely be infinitely more precious and beautiful than a diamond!