Are you ready for a growth spurt? Well, I've caught one for you today. One to two times a month, I'll give you a short message that I am calling a growth spurt that will

help you narrow in on our focus of the month in ways that are bite-sized and super applicable right away.

So let's jump on in.

Hello my friends, it has been difficult for me to, you know, both gather and formulate my thoughts that I want to share with you today.

But I'm going to do my best because I have been thinking quite a lot about you about this community and the difficult times we

are facing in the world right now with the coronavirus and everything that's coming

with that. All of us are suffering in one way or another and we are being called upon to stand up and to do things that we wouldn't have done otherwise and we are facing a lot of unknown ahead of us and in the

Packer home we are right there with you on that. We are facing so much change just like you and we are trying to grapple how to handle a really full home and really small quarters with a husband working almost all day because he doesn't have the right

equipment and me trying to squeeze in a bit here and there and homeschool our kids and you know all that life is throwing at you too. I mean I'm sure you can hear my

kids in the background and will continue to hear them in the background for the

next many months as we sort through all of this. This is real life and we are all in this together.

What I wanted to share with you are some of my reflections that I've had this past week since so much has changed as well as what I feel is the message that I want this community to really take to heart and take action on.

As I've been thinking about all that we are facing right now, so much

upheaval, so much unknown, so much world in torment, I've reflected on the

generations before us, in particular two generations ago from the World War II generation.

Their circumstances, although very different from ours,'re very similar in other ways.

They at the time their circumstances like ours were unparalleled.

They had never experienced such worldwide suffering and upheaval,

so much unknown, so much interrupted, so much disappointment

and anxiety and disappointment.

And you know, not to look at this with rose-colored glasses at all but they

became the greatest generation because of how they stood up when they were

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