I have a little boy. Occasionally I find myself staring too hard at the news, worrying too much about the things that are far beyond my control, and often, my understanding. I try to reflect back on things my grandparents taught me. They lived through the Great Depression, and understood what it meant to be hungry, to not have enough. I think about the lessons they taught me on gratitude, and a spirit of thanksgiving.
I don’t want times to be hard for my little boy. I want to pave the road and slay all the dragons for him…but I can’t, and I won’t. I do believe that in crisis, there is opportunity. Opportunity to learn, to grow, to challenge and change.
So I’m optimistic about my ability to take the lessons that were taught to me, and to pass them on to my little boy, no matter what is going on in the world around us.
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