Finding Purpose in a Pandemic
These days the moments of grace and the moments of grief seem to come in quick succession. You make your fundraising goal even though your non-profit’s gala was cancelled. Then y ou receive the first email announcing a summer camp cancellation. Your 13-year-old learns how to bake a mean carrot cake from scratch. The next morning a best friend texts that she lost her 40-something cousin in Texas overnight. We try and hold on to the bright moments, the #silverlinings, in all this loss, but sometimes it’s hard not to dwell in the darkness. I found comfort in the words of the wise Carolyn Hax, advice columnist for The Washington Post , who recently wrote, ” ..instead of living in a macro place of hopelessness, please push yourself deliberately to a micro place of purpose.” Doing something, however small, for yourself, your family, or your neighborhood, can help lift the gloom and doom, even for the moment. Here are some of the ways I’ve found ...