Well, I really don't want to sound negative, but I'm getting sick and tired of all the

negative talk going on in the world of the day.

Anybody else feel that way?

Like it's just getting almost overwhelming everywhere that you look almost all the time.

Anytime you turn on the news or read in the news app and there is a lot of really difficult

news.

People are getting sick.

People tragically dying jobs are vanishing.

The economy is struggling, the nation is divided, and it seems like the pervasive message

in the world today that this is the end of the world as we know it.

And it's so easy to get sucked into the negativity and the fear and the anxiety that seems to

overwhelm so many people.

And if I could just be transparent with you, there are so many different times when I find

myself more emotionally on edge.

I find myself getting easily angered.

It's almost good that there's social distancing because it doesn't take much to get me

lit up right now.

I find myself more easily discouraged and often just kind of wake up feeling like, can

we ever rebuild this?

Can we ever go back to something that is meaningful?

So what I'm doing right now is I'm really, really asking God to help me to see the good

in the middle of all the bad.

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