These words radiating from the Holy Bible reawaken within us a moment of spiritual rebirth to look at life with courage and revisit the history of the creation and humanity. During these trying times of COVID-19, we need to focus our prayers on God alone and lead our thoughts into the depths of history of humanity to remember the marvels the Lord has done. God never abandoned humanity. And God will bring new marvels into our distress and tribulations. Having been created in the image of God, we ought to look into the depths of our souls and exercise our faith as the key element of spiritual gift to regain our wisdom and continue our journey with God.

I chose these words from the Psalms and found hope and light in them. Humanity needs to see the marvels the Lord has done. This moment of searching needs to be applied not only individually but collectively, as the people of God. God did not bring the COVID-19 pandemic nor other pandemics into this world. I hope and pray that during these troublesome times of isolation, we will be reawakening within our spirituality the closeness with God and above all the inner desire to reclaim the everlasting wisdom to become co-creators with Lord to bring back what we have lost.

As I look at the Creation, I then see that even the nature is regaining its original divine beauty and people are cultivating within their hearts a new move towards life and people in general.

I firmly believe that as we adopt to the new way of life, we will then be the living marvel the Lord is pouring into our hearts. It will be the marvel which will be remembered by future generations.

Archbishop Hovnan Derderian

Primate