There’s Opportunity to Find Meaning in a Pandemic

People who say “it’s always darkest before the dawn” usually don’t have a clue when the dawn will come. But this time we do.

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There’s a trite expression that it’s always darkest before the dawn. I want to talk about the dark. And the dawn. This expression typically means keep going. When it feels rough, muscle through. And I rather like this expression.

For people with depression, they often describe things as being dark. And who they hell hasn’t been suffering through some depression? I mean — we have it all: death, joblessness, a Congress that’s abandoned us, fear, Rudy Giuliani melting.

I haven’t studied the Bible closely, but I think Giuliani melting has been prophesied. Go look. I think it’s in Samuel. Or that Corinthian that Trump likes. Or Genesis. Isn’t it great that he likes “both testaments? New and Old.” I’m so convinced.

Normally people make this “dark before the dawn” expression when things look really crappy. Like “get a hold of Slavitt…