I know it has been a tough year for many, but I hope you don't believe it was a wasted year.
The dreams and goals you had in the beginning may quickly evaporate when elements outside of your control were taken over, but that is not necessarily the end of the world.
The black clouds may have blocked the sun for much of 2020, but the sun was still shining.
And we'll see it again.
Instead of just wishing the year is over and we wash our hands, I want to ask what we learned this year.
I know for myself there have been moments when I was humiliated by my circumstances and forced to consider career opportunities that would once have been unthinkable.
And that was fine.
I have better understood the need to use my children's resilience as a role model. It's an aspect of life that is easy to talk about when everything is rosy, but what if it is not?
And I'm glad I did.
I had to downgrade some of my aspirations. There were exciting dreams that I soon understood would not come true if everything changed.
But somehow they worked for the best.
And I was reminded of the blessings of God. That they rarely come the way we'd like them to, but if we look closely, they are there.
And I am very grateful.
2020 was not the year I was hoping for.
But maybe it was the year I needed.
And despite the moments of doubt, isolation and detours.
I am probably in a better place now than I was at the beginning of the year.
What did you learn this year?
So:
Laden …
