Today, Christians globally celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ who died for our sins and came back to life to show us that death is not the end, but the beginning…

A rebirth...that we can start again and move forward to make a new world…

That is how I am looking at the pandemic of COVID 19…the world has been shutdown…in some places for two months and in Hawaii for almost four weeks with another two weeks to go… 

During this relatively short time, Nature has been reclaiming itself; the ozone hole is shrinking, the Himalayas can now be seen as far as India because the smog is clearing, dolphins and fish are returning to the Venice canals, turtles are laying more eggs on beaches in this time then all of the past five years alone, and fish are being replenished because so many fishing boats have been grounded… 

However, there is no question that there is a lot of concern for our financial futures, much uncertainty and fear, but many are so fortunate because governments are helping people with stimulus packages to get past this time…I have lived through stock market crashes, hurricanes, earthquakes, interest rates hitting 21% for home loans, 9-11, and the Great Recession…Never was there the help that we are now receiving and within a few months we should all be working again and back in business…

So while we are idle, we need to reflect and see that this lockdown time has been a gift for us to sit down, calm down, and see where we want to go in the future…Is this the job/career I really want, the place I want to live, the person I want to be with going forward, etc…. 

Like the Phoenix bird of mythology, I am going to believe that 2020 will be reborn and the decisions I am making and the work I am doing now will rebuild my life for the better and I hope all of you will be doing the same…Here’s to the upcoming reset and reboot of 2020…