The world in silence 2020

We are a few months into 2021, and the rush to get life moving has ramped up no end. I see COVID slightly differently. The world in silence came to an abrupt halt, much like the silence when Christ breathed His last breathe. Last year, places where tourists roamed, now animals roamed-- the silence that stopped the world, shock us all to the bones or did it? In that, silence saw death and saw lives changed. For many in caused them to stop and think to take a breath to see the wonder around us for others it was desperation to get back to the so called norm of years gone by forgetting just maybe God had stopped the world to show how in the silence we can see things more clearly. To see that in the silence, we could just perhaps hear His voice. Six feet apart and wearing a mask no longer seeing a person's smile or facial expressions but turning ourselves to question life. How many want to go back to life as norm? I for one do not. In my silence and life changing situations of 2020, I see that God had a plan and if we rush to have stadiums full and to go back to life as the norm, or so they say, just maybe we miss out on seeing the greatest life changing lessons that we can learn. On a cross, Christ was alone: the world took a breathe last year, yet the world rushes for a quick fix answer, but perhaps just maybe it's simple. Be still and know that I am God. In that and that alone, surely that is enough.