(USA Today) Like many of you, I have been in and out of a funk these past weeks, ever since the full force of this global COVID-19 pandemic started to impact our communities here at home. It’s a desperate, dispiriting thing, to see so much suffering, to see so many people fearful for their lives and their livelihoods. Who wouldn’t be feeling down and uncertain about what lies ahead?
Right now, I’m out of that funk, and I’d like to tell you why — and how it happened that I’ve come to look on this moment from a more hopeful place. The turnaround started when I went for a long walk the other day to clear my head, because I’d been hearing so many negative things from my friends and in the media. I needed to put the world on pause for a moment … to think … to breathe. I walked for over six miles, keeping a safe social distance from other walkers and joggers, the whole time thinking about where we were as a society and where I was with God.