Turmoil and uncertainty seem to rule 2020. I’ve wondered countless times, “What is going on?” and “What is going to happen next?” and “Is humanity beyond hope?” How quickly external unrest can seep into our interior lives as well. It’s easy to be sucked in to thinking that we are living in the worst of times. But a simple look at history offers a strange sort of consolation – times have been terrible before at varying levels and in varying ways. There have been plagues, p