What Do You Choose?

When you’ve lost a sense of freedom and control in the world outside of you, you still have freedom to choose how you respond in the world inside of you ( although it may not feel that way sometimes). Viktor Frankl who survived four different concentration camps during WWII, believed that you can’t avoid suffering, but you can choose how you cope with it, and you can learn to find meaning and move forward with a renewed sense of purpose in life.  If he could believe that after experiencing the atrocities of concentration camps, then I believe we can do the same.  Many of the people we love are suffering from Covid 19 and the effects of it, which are reverberating around the world.  We may not have a choice about who it ravishes and the pain it leaves behind,  but I believe we are being challenged to choose how we cope and respond.  Can we act with more love, kindness and compassion?  Can we use these painful experiences to bring more meaning and purpose into our lives and those we love?    I believe we can. 

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