Well...

2021.  

What a start.

So this first week was more than any of us could imagine.  I sat in my office after school yesterday and felt like I was watching a movie.  It was unreal.  It is days like this that can drive us to negativity and despair.  We can loose hope.  We can grow bitter.  We can only see things as bad.

But you know what?  Things are ok.  They aren't great.  They aren't fantastic. But they aren't horrible.  They are ok.  And I am going to be ok with ok.  There is so much that I can't control that focusing on only those items could make me feel like all is lost.  But what about the things I can control?  What about the gifts I have been given?  I have so much to give thanks for, so I am going to be ok with ok.

Though it is hard, I can make things better than ok.  I can choose to find good, do good, and be good.  Perhaps if we all find good, do good, and be good, that hope we have for 2021 will be fulfilled.