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2020 – The Year We All Took A Step Back BySherry Wurgler
2020 has taught
us humility and courage, all wrapped up in the same package. It has been an exhausting year of change and uncertainty. We have lost loved ones. We have suffered sickness and adversity. And yet, through all the hardships have we not also gained? Covid-19 put us in quarantine and all of a sudden, the distractions of daily living: our children participating in various after school activities, sports events, dining out, having friends over for a meal, meeting friends for coffee, just suddenly disappeared. Our children were home for 2 months as
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teachers organized online learning. We went from a busy active on the go society, to near shutdown in a matter of weeks.
Through it all, what have we learned? Have we not learned to treasure our family more than ever before? They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Has that not been truer than ever before. I, for one, (as I’m sure most of us) have missed seeing my children and grandchildren as often as I used to.
2 0 2 0 – T h e Ye a r W e A l l To o k A S t e p B a c k
At first, we just survived, and then as time went on, we learned to thrive.
