Journey Through Lockdown: A Christian devotional for uncertain times

My personal reflections on Level Five Lockdown as a Grandmother in South Africa.

Chapter 1
25 March 2020Virtual World On Sunday we attended virtual church. Well, it wasn’t quite virtual reality – if you ...

Chapter 2: 26 March, 2020 Exceptional Gifts
On Monday night, our fellowship group had our “last supper.” We all saw how things were going and knew it would not ...

Chapter 3: 27 March, 2020 Lockdown Day, 1 Glimpses of Glory.
Yesterday was hectic. My husband and I decided to take the last opportunity to go out for breakfast and cappuccino while we stil ...

Chapter 4: 28 March 2020 Lockdown Day 2, Creativity
My cell phone is next to me. I need it to check on the news, (are there any more prohibitions I need to know about) keep contact ...

Chapter 5: 29 March 2020 Lockdown Day 3, A Kiss of God
Yesterday morning, as I was in the bath, the sun’s angle changed in such a way that the sunshine streamed through my bathr ...

Chapter 6: 30 March 2020 Lockdown Day 4, Tents on the Patio
When my husband cleared out the store room, we found four tents. Two tiny ones were from the days when our younger son was still ...

Chapter 7: 31 March 2020 Lockdown Day 5, Living Online
Now that so many people are in lockdown, life is going online. We have online church every Sunday. My daughter is offering onlin ...

Chapter 8: 1 April, 2020 Lockdown Day 6, Learning New Things
One positive consequence of this Lockdown is we are able to learn new things. Those of the older generation, like me, are a litt ...

Chapter 9: 2 April 2020 Lockdown Day 7, Attitude of Gratitude
Yesterday I made cards with the grandchildren during “Granny Time.” They were meant to be Easter cards, but mine tur ...

Chapter 10: 3 April 2020 Lockdown Day 8, Foil Boats
It had been raining all morning and we decided to make foil boats and sail them on puddles for our Granny Science activity.The p ...

Chapter 11: 4 April 2020 Lockdown Day 9, Deep
It has been raining all day and it’s an ideal day to settle down with my computer and write. Since yesterday I have been t ...

Chapter 12: 5 April, 2020 Lockdown Day 10, Sunday again
Sunday has come around again and not just any Sunday. Today is Palm Sunday. The family came over for church again this week ...

Chapter 13: 6 April Lockdown Day 11, Blue is for Peace
God talks to us in many ways. Today, I’ve mostly heard from Him through scripture. It started this morning with my verse f ...

Chapter 14: 7 April 2020 Lockdown Day 12, Beyond Understanding
Yesterday I noticed something strange on the patio under our gazebo.It looked like somebody had scraped out a bowl of colourless ...

Chapter 15: 8th April, 2020 Day 13 Green Tomatoes and Seeds
A tomato plant grew itself in a bath of soil I used to use for some strawberries that never thrived. When I found the branches d ...

Chapter 16: 9 April Lockdown Day 14 In the Middle of History
Tonight at midnight we will be two thirds of the way through our 21 day lockdown. The question on everybody’s lips is, &ld ...

Chapter 17: 10 April 2020 Lockdown Day 15. Hand Washing
Today is Good Friday.Last night we heard the news of the extended lockdown. Another two weeks!Our six-year-old granddaughter is ...

Chapter 18: 11 April 2020 Lockdown Day 16, Out of Joint
Today is Easter Saturday – a kind of marking-time day on the Easter weekend. I imagine on that first Easter Saturday, the ...

Chapter 19: 12 April, 2020 Lockdown Day 17, Easter Sunday
I will never forget this Easter in the middle of Lockdown 2020. Thanks so much to Rosebank Union Church, Pastor Richard and ...

Chapter 20: 13 April 2020 Day 18 Birthday Preparations
Tomorrow is my granddaughter’s sixth birthday. Being in lockdown, we can’t have a party, we can’t buy balloons ...

Chapter 21: 14 April 2020 Lockdown Day 19 Birthday Picnic
Today was the long-awaited birthday. There was much present opening and celebration. The children have been sleeping in the art ...

Chapter 22: 15 April 2020 Lockdown Day 20 Good Advice
Obeying God's commands and laws makes us wiser than our enemies, gives us more insight than our teachers and more understanding ...

Chapter 23: 16 April 2020 Lockdown Day 21 Home Schooling
Today was meant to be the last day of lockdown – that was until it was extended by another two weeks!I am helping my grand ...

Chapter 24: 17 April 2020 Lockdown Day 22 Something Big
The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra have collaborated to bring music to uplift our spirit ...

Chapter 25: 18 April 2020 Lockdown Day 23 Light as Air
It is Saturday. Despite having been retired for almost three years and the fact that during lockdown days merge into each other, ...

Chapter 26: 19 April 2020 Lockdown Day 25 Little Parables
Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider its ways and be wise! (Prov 6:6 NIV)This morning my husband directed my attention to ...

Chapter 27: 20 April 2020 Lockdown Day 26 Free
This morning I opened a forwarded message informing me that Joy Magazine was making their January issue free online. L ...

Chapter 28: 21 April 2020 Lockdown Day 27 Remember Me
This morning my normal YouTube daily devotion was nowhere to be found. Instead I read a chapter of Rebecca Barlow-Jones’ b ...

Chapter 29: 22 April Lockdown Day 26
Romans 4:20-21 says of Abraham,Yet he did not waiver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in ...

Chapter 30: 23 April 2020 Lockdown Day 28 Protection
Today we had to go shopping. We took our masks and our hand-sanitiser although the two shops we visited both had sanitiser for t ...

Chapter 31: 24 April 2020 Lockdown Day 29 This is the Year
Last night President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a stepped lifting of the hard lockdown from 1 May according to the infection rate ...

Chapter 32: 25 April 2020 Lockdown Day 30 Valour
This post is part of Saturday Stream of Consciousness. The prompt for today is to use val in a word. I have chose ...

Chapter 33: 26 April 2020 Lockdown Day 31 Trees
My son-in-law decided to take down a branch of the acacia tree that was dying and could be a danger if it fell. There was a lot ...

Chapter 34: 27 April 2020 Lockdown Day 32 Freedom
Today is Freedom Day in South Africa. It commemorates our first democratic elections in 1994. At last all South Africans could v ...

Chapter 35: 28 April 2020 Lockdown Day 33 Through the Window.
I love looking through my study window and seeing my grandchildren play. Even when it’s raining, they can have such fun. T ...

Chapter 36: 29 April 2020 Lockdown Day 34 Greater
"Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world."(1 John 4:4 NIV)My God is greater.He is greater than the president.He ...

Chapter 37: 30 April 2020 Lockdown Day 35 Work
Tomorrow is Worker’s Day, a public holiday in South Africa and in another 65 countries around the world. It seems iro ...

Chapter 38: 1 May 2020 Lockdown Easing
From today South Africa moves from level five to level four lockdown. Pictures flood the news about people out exercising at Emm ...