Disruptions can be the bane of our existence. Sometimes they affect us momentarily and are a mere inconvenience; other times they are life-altering.

Five years ago the entire planet experienced the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of this disease linger today. More recently, the devastating wildfires in California have impacted millions of lives, leaving communities wondering how they will ever recover. Our hearts break at the images of once proud lives reduced to dust and ashes by this natural disaster, as they do at images of the ruin of war.

I recall visiting a parishioner in the final stages of selling her house before moving into a nursing home. She was watching her final few possessions being carried off to the city dump. “Look at the final return on virtually every investment I have made in my life,” she exclaimed.........

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