This pandemic does not want to leave us alone.  It is a sinister, conniving thing that is finding new ways to cause illness and death.  New and more challenging variants have resulted from its sneaky ability to mutate.  When crises come our way our first tendency is to ask “why.”  Mostly that gets framed as “why is this happening to me (or to us)?”  But here’s the deal - that question rarely helps us.

You have had this experience.  I have had this experience.  We suddenly react in an unusual way to a stressful or difficult situation or relationship.  Maybe we get surprisingly angry or suddenly extremely anxious and fearful, and words come out of our mouths as if controlled by some other source.  And we say to ourselves, “Where did that come from?”