Hi! My name is Quarantine.

If quarantine were a person he would say to me, "Galliele you need to chill out. Sis, you freak out way too much! You are messing with my vibes."  This silly illustration of the person who I image quarantine to be comes from the idea of work ethic. When am I  doing too much or not enough? What does my lack say about me? The world is currently being held at a standstill as we are fighting COVID-19 the pandemic brought upon the earth. The virus has us all indoors and requires the limitation of human contact to avoid spreading the virus further. When this all started I thought to myself, "Okay, so this is happening and we have to adapt... Cool, I can get used to this." So I began to contrive a plan to innovate myself into being that girl who had "IT". I drafted an elaborate schedule to wake up early, workout, eat healthy food, and grow in my relationship with the Lord. Well, to be quite honest I failed at week two and this made me enter into a downward spiral of doubt, depression, and anxiety. 

                                               

I began to question my value, worth, and purpose. I did not have a school or church to distract me from my imperfections. I was stuck in one place forced to look at myself without an attachment. I had to look in the mirror. Struggling with the person I would see when I examined my soul.  The flaws, quirks, failures, and traumas began to magnify.  I was beginning to be blinded by the things that made me.  After a while, these thoughts began to reign in my mind blocking me from seeing the answer God provided in His word.

2 Corinthians 4:16‭-‬18 (AMP)

16 Therefore we do not become discouraged [spiritless, disappointed, or afraid]. Though our outer self is [progressively] wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor, and an endless blessedness]! 18 So we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen; for the things which are visible are temporal [just brief and fleeting], but the things which are invisible are everlasting and imperishable.