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Different Can Be Good

I could see it in his eyes as he sat next to me last night.  We see each other at our kids' events, and here we were at the end of a swim meet we weren't even sure was going to happen a few hours earlier.  We talked about all the things everyone else is talking about:  the crowds at the grocery store, the run on toilet paper, the uncertainty of whether the kids would even be in school next week.  So, there it was in his expression, and in mine too, even as we joked:  uncertainty. Over the last 48 hours, we have all been waking up to the reality that things are going to be different for a bit, that normalcy is quickly disappearing as fast as those rolls of toilet paper.  Work will look different.  School will be different.  Church will be different.  And this will be okay.  It really will.  This "different" will be a good thing for those around us.  It will slow the spread of this virus and allow us to indirectly extend care to those most at risk:  our health care w