We're giving Jade Souza another opportunity to share about her time in Cuba this coming Sunday. Jade was scheduled to share on March 15th, a talk we postponed when we cancelled that day's gathering.

Speaking of cancellations and postponements, I assume many of you have faced both, and maybe multiple times. I imagine that, for all the ways we're trying to stay positive, grateful, and hopeful, there is a lot of disappointment among us. Cancelled graduations, trips, parties, gatherings, meetings...jobs? Among other things.

I want to join the chorus of others who may have encouraged you not to minimize your grief and say: it stinks. I'm sorry for these disappointments and the sorrow and stress and scrambling they may have caused. The ripples of our quarantine life could also bring new disappointments and challenges in the weeks and months to come. Despite the possible dread and anxiety and grief we feel, somehow...we have to keep going...right?

I will defer to wisdom from my kids' current favorite flick. I hope this helps you as much as it helped the fictional character who sang it...

I won't look too far ahead
It's too much for me to take
But break it down to this next breath
This next step
This next choice is one that I can make
So I'll walk through this night
Stumbling blindly toward the light
And do the next right thing
And, with it done, what comes then?
When it's clear that everything
Will never be the same again
Then I'll make the choice to hear that voice
And do the next right thing

Hang in there, friends!

-Matt