Thankful
Photo by Gratisography from Pexels I’m writing this during the 2020 pandemic, Covid-19, Coronavirus, quarantine, whatever you want to call it or what it might be called historically at this point. Regardless of what you call this time period, you all know what I am talking about. This is also coinciding with one of the biggest civil rights movements in our history. Finally, and entirely too late there seems to be a big push for anti-racism. While this is definitely a positive, there is so much hurt going on right now. It has drastically changed our lives and our world. This time of uncertainty, hurt, and turmoil might seem like a strange time to focus on being thankful, but that is exactly the time to focus on being thankful. The world is hurting, the United States is hurting, I’m hurting, my friends and family are hurting. It would be so very easy to adopt a doom and gloom outlook on life. There is so much “wrong” it can become overwhelming. If we put our focus on the wrongs, we c