In a world full of distractions....

AUG 13, 2020 AT 12:11 PM When the year turned to 2020, I wrote in my journal of the low-level dread I feel every election year. I hate election years.

Atop political partisanship and ugliness we're now dealing with a world-wide pandemic, family tragedy, and isolation.

In this world of chaos and craziness I feel, more than ever, a call to focus, to be still, and to listen. I will try not to meld with the whirlwind of argument, sickness, slander, and isolation around me. I will find a place of calm in the storm. I will sit peacefully and eat a prepared meal in “the valley of the shadow of death”.

I can be IN the storm and not be OF the storm.

I can be light and creativity in the chaos, even because of the chaos.

You can, too.