If you have ever sewn, you know what a seam ripper is and the purpose it serves. It is a quick way to undo a stiching. We all had our lives, we had structure, schedules and normals of our day in and day out. things were starting to fray though through the years before. We had stitched together ourselves. The pandemic brought a quick and swift seam ripper to rip out this thread that was holding us together. Not one person can say that their lives remained the same and were unchanged of 2020 due to the pandemic. Our new normals day in and day out looks very different, everything stripped away, the stitching that held us together ripped apart. We had to pivot, so we tried our best to stitch that thread back in and to make it look as normal as possible. But who are we kidding, we all look a bit like frankenstein. We stitched ourselves back together to function as much as we could, but not like before. It wasn't all bad, Some of us had to take a raw look at what we stitched back together, perhaps we missed a few stitches. This time of isolation, our comforts and things we turned to help in times of uncertainty are no longer in reach, and it has helped in taking a magnifying glass to those areas where we missed a stitch of two, to help us put the stitches back in place once we've worked through whatever we've had to work through.
Even though this is our new normal, for however long it will be, we are creating a beautiful version of ourselves, stitched together with stronger threads, to build a better version. This is grace. Happy New Year, may this year be the best year yet.
