The Miracle of 2020? (A 2020 Reflection)

The concept of 2020 as a miracle is a bit harder to fathom than the concept of 2020 containing miracles. For the most part, people are slamming 2020 as “the worst. year. EVERRRRR,” and I can see their point.

It hasn’t been that for me, though; far from it. Even so… Miracle? Hmm…

What if…

Here’s what came through for prompt six of A 2020 Reflection:

Ask yourself, "What if 2020 was meant to be a miracle for me? How did that miracle present itself?"

So, in spite of everything - a worldwide pandemic, a long-overdue revolution, the craziest general election ever - for me, 2020 has been a remarkably good year.

Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t without its wobbles and its ups and downs and all-arounds - some documented, some not documented.

Even so, looking back over its landscape from my particular perspective, it’s been pretty damn good.

Labeling it “a miracle for me” still feels more than a little bit of a stretch, though. However, I’m willing to view the landscape again and determine if I could assign it that label.

A miracle for me

While I’m uncertain it’s appropriately categorized as a miracle, I happily report that my business didn’t suffer from the pandemic. It didn’t soar, either, and yet it sustained and even grew some.

Given how many businesses and entire industries have suffered, perhaps that in itself is a miracle.

This may be closer to a miracle: No one in my immediate family - parents, siblings, nieces, nephews - has contracted COVID-19. (A whole branch of cousins did, however, in the aftermath of their personal family Thanksgiving. Although all of them were symptomatic, none required hospitalization. They were very lucky.)

Praise be and knock on wood.

As for the actual miracle… That is the fact that I engaged with my soul biz in such a way that it became abundantly clear how I need to proceed in order to scale it.

It took investment in education. It took trial and error. It took self-directed anger and tears and a near breakdown. And yet I finally got what I needed to get so I can move forward.

And that’s a miracle for me because of my resistance and stubbornness and lack of trust in the process.

Notice how close to home that self-labeled miracle is? Notice how personal and reflective it is?

It might be said we’ll find the greatest miracles - of 2020 and otherwise - by looking within ourselves.

Blessed be.