Blessings in Adversity

 2020!!! 2020!!2020!2020.......

This year brought about countless changes, some good, bad, indifferent and multitude of others on the scales of life. We lost yet we gained. We suffered yet we conquered. We loved and hated. We felt helpless yet we were helpful at times. We were torn down, but we found ways to build. We felt directionless but somehow our internal compass took control. 

People who were passive became proactive. People who were aggressive found a way to channel that thing within them that created a space of tranquility and stillness. People who thought they COULD NEVER realized they COULD. When one's back is against the wall, he or she finds out his or her composition internally. One can come out swinging; one can sit and do nothing; or one can center herself and devise a plan of action prior to moving. We had each of these this year.

2020 has been a year of challenge. One that many of us could not have foreseen in our lifetime. We have read about pandemics and epidemics. We have witnessed racism, bigotry, sexism, classism, and many other isms. But, I do not think many of us could have fathomed anything to the magnitude of what we have and are currently enduring in this time. Leaderless nations. Leaderful communities by the everyday man, woman, and child. 

Death, defeat, degradation, and demise seems to have covered over us like the shadow in an eclipse, but even the eclipsed is outlined with the light. Still we rise. We are here. We are birthing. We are birthing dreams. We are birthing businesses. We are birthing awareness. We are birthing growth. We are birthing life. 

Lest not hang our heads and hearts in the pits of despair and hopelessness. Lets straighten our necks, stand up tall, vision forged ahead, and walk one step at a time into a new life, a new world. Creation. 

In the midst...in the midst...we will rise like the Phoenix out of the ashes!