There is an old word that is getting a new lease on life in these times -the word is Disruption. The Bangkok Post business headline recently was Disruption is the new normal. Our world is changing at an accelerating pace. And we as individuals are also experiencing huge disruption -the changes that are happening within our loss of freedom and the need to see others as a key reason for our own behaviour. This new way of living with need rather than want. This new realisation of what we had as community.
This moment of disruption is a time in which we will be changed. Psalm 18 talks of the psalmist crying out to the Lord in distress, and there is this image of God responding by entering the dark clouds. We are surely in a time of dark clouds, and we have a precedent of God entering the darkness. Over and over again through history, God enters the darkness, in order to transform it.
As a leader I want to see, when we finally get to that new dawn of a new normal, that we have drawn closer to God in the dark times. That we have got stronger as we lived through hard times of juggling work and childcare; of seeing our work diminishing before us, of losing the community we have previously taken for granted. So in these strange times, I challenge you to take time to look for God in the dark cloud of disruption.
