Tangling with Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a life-changing event for the world, by way of effecting the lives of billions of people the world  over. In some cases, sadly, it meant an end to life and mourning those lives to millions. However, this pandemic has also been a life lesson to many of us. The value of life, the freedoms we may have taken for granted, and the strands that tie us together have been front and center due to the absence of so much of what we had considered "normal." You all know all of this, so I will not add to that conversation. Instead, I want to speak of what many of us have discovered. 

Since so many of us have been tied to our home bases, working from home, watching our kids homeschool from home on their computer screens, we have had time to discover new activities. Some of these have included things such as doing household chores we have put off, remodeling projects, and finding games and puzzles to entertain us. Let's not forget, last but not least, how we streamed and binge-watched hours and hours of screen time.

I have indulged in all of the above, but I have also found activities that fed my soul in ways I had not experienced because of all this extra time I had on my hands. First, my faith was fed by spending hours in Bible study, including weekly Zoom time spent in group discussion, thanks to an internationally-known entity--the Community Bible Study organization 

Community Bible Study: Home

Second, as you will find in my previous blog post, I found Barbara Gray at Clarity Stamp in the UK, who virtually held my hand while I learned to draw in a way I hadn't before. 

Along the same line, I also found Zentangle through YouTube and Cyndee Pelley, "The Tireless Tangler" :

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTirelessTangler/featured

Also, through Cyndee and YouTube, I found the founders of Zentangle and their instructive videos: 

https://www.youtube.com/user/Zentangle

I can't say enough about how much all of these activities centered me and countered all of the mixed messages, fear, and anxiety of 2020 and the first few months of 2021.  I hope that you found something that brought you peace during this time and taught you life lessons that you may not have learned otherwise.