COVID-19 : Your Defining Moment
As COVID 19 continues to ravage our societies, inflicting painful damages to our homes, economies, and the world, I have been asking myself, optimistically, when the COVID storms cease and the damaging winds break, would a better version of me emerge? The words of the great Dr. John Maxwell come into mind – DEFINING MOMENT. I have always believed that pressure refines ordinary stones into diamonds.
It is definitely an interesting time to be alive, minute after minute we are pelted with COVID news on our smart phones and television screens. The news regardless of the source is depressing, discouraging, disappointing and at best scary. This pandemic urges everyone well and alive toward a choice between a dichotomous perspective: either you dwell on the numbers/news and fret over when you will be infected or you view it as a DEFINING MOMENT to do something positive to your life even in the face of the grim predictions and numbers that we see on our screens every day.
I will encourage you to begin tilting your perspective toward the consequential truth that this could also be a DEFINING MOMENT for you.
It a defining moment for the CEO who decides to stand with his/her employees against board pressure.
It is a defining moment for the consultant father who realizing after being on road for 9 months, that he wants nothing more than to be home to spend time with his family.
It is a defining moment for the working mother who seizes the opportunity to teach her children the values she learnt from her grandmother.
It a defining moment for the employee who has longed to reboot their career and add some additional skills to their arsenal.
It is a defining moment to write the book which you have been composing in your mind or to finish the one you started.
It is defining moment for the couple who take advantage of this alone time together to heal their marriage.
It is a defining moment for those who want to strengthen their relationship with their Maker.
It a defining moment for the high school boy who can sit under the tutelage of a busy father.
It a defining moment to stop and enjoy the little things in life. IT IS YOUR DEFINING MOMENT
Regardless of your age, creed, wealth status, race, occupation, marital status, COVID-19 is a life altering pandemic that happens once in a life time and as we pray for healing on the sick and the infected, we also draw into ancient wisdom to transform ourselves positively to emerge a better version of ourselves at the end of the tunnel.
Make it your DEFINING MOMENT