As artist-leaders who follow the most High God, we have a unique skill set to react to this time and season in 5 ways.

A poem about reconnecting as close as a pandemic will allow:

Smiles, big eyes.

How the heck have you been?

Delight of recognition,

A triad, a row of connection, through three car windows

The tensions and irreconcilable juxtapositions have purpose. Sometimes we receive glimpses of their gifts, but even if you never see their goodnesses this side of eternity, they do exist. Here’s my tribute to a year that could have taken me under, but I choose to see it for what it is on the flip side: blessing.

Pain. Hope. To marry the two can seem almost profane. To reconcile these realities, Isaiah 40 offers help.