4-9-2020 Announcements--The "Right" Response to This Situation

The WVJH Podcast

There’s not really any new information today that hasn’t already been mentioned in the previous editions of the WVJH Podcast so, I’d like to use this episode to provide you with a little encouragement.

The Right Response to This Situation

If you are like me, in early to mid-March, you were probably blindsided by the COVID-19 pandemic. I was definitely hopeful that we would return to school and I was really counting on spring sports happening. Sometimes, we need to control what we can control.

We may be stuck at home, but we are not powerless. We don’t want the circumstances of what happened to dictate something that is important to you. You may have heard your parents say, thought or even yourself said, “this isn’t fair!” I would say to you, “that you are right. This is life, and it isn’t fair. This is your life and these are the terms...what are you going to do about it?”

We’ve entered a unique season of all of our lives...this is truly a shared experience. It’s the first time that I can think of where pretty much the entire world is united for a common cause. I did a search to find out which countries do not have cases of coronavirus and found that I hadn’t heard of most of them and the ones that I had heard of probably are not reporting with the highest level of integrity. Like the seasons of the year, you have seasons of life. You may have heard the terms “once in a lifetime event” or “100 year storm” or even “100 year flood.” Weather has “once in a lifetime events” and the COVID-19 pandemic is most likely going to be a once in a lifetime event that we will remember for a long time. We most definitely didn’t choose to enter this season of life...but, make no mistake, this is the season we have been given. It’s the season we are in. This is our life. This is what has happened to us. How are you going to respond to it? You most likely heard the quote, “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Friends, what are you doing now to prepare yourself when we move out of this season? How are you responding?

If you are still struggling through this stage, you are not alone. There are many of us who have been knocked down by this and have been derailed, which is okay. It’s what should happen...at first. What is not okay is to stay down. We need to get back up and deal with the reality of the situation. It’s gut check time. We are entering week four away from school and it’s time to find our rhythm again. We need to accept the reality and respond appropriately.

So much creativity is going to flow out of this. There’s a lot of rest and recovery going on, but there is also a lot of improving happening as well. Don’t waste this opportunity to be great. When the dust settles and our lives return to normal, you can’t rewind or press the reset button and get this time back. The time is now to take care of what needs to be taken care of. Even though it doesn’t seem like it, this is real life. We didn’t choose for it to be this way, but it happened and we have to deal with it.

You are not alone in this so please feel free to contact your teachers as we work through this situation and get back to normal.

If you have questions, please email me at [e-mail]. I may not know the answer to your question, but I probably know who does and I’m glad to help you.

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