Looking back on 2020
At the beginning of this year, our family received this word - if you're willing to be ready, you're ready to be used ( Jan 2020 blog entry ). The real condition precedent is willingness, not readiness. This is important, because most times, no one is really ready until we're actually doing the thing. But God's promise is, if we are willing, we are ready. If we're ready, we can be used. I certainly didn't know in January that we were going into a year where the world would be turned entirely upside down, with the way we live, work and interact with others! No one could have been ready for that! Yet here I stand, at the end of 2020, able to testify that simple willingness to hear God and obey Him made many of us ready to be used for His purposes in ways - big and small, special and mundane - that we didn't even imagine were possible. At work, it wasn't just the Covid pandemic that was creating chaos. Increasing nationalism and the reversal of globalisatio