Right now the world is overwhelming. What phase of reopening are we in? Is it really safe to go out right now, Covid numbers here locally seem to be going up and up. Am I listening objectively to the national conversation on race that happening all around me? Am I being good enough? Smart enough? Am I doing enough?
Every day the world bombards us with action items. Information overload. Too much to take in, too much to process, too much to react to all at once. There is no mystery person who is able to keep up with it all. But that does not mean the answer is to bury your head in the sand.
Each of us has the option every day to do the next right thing. The next one thing in front of you that you are able to do to make the world better, to make yourself better, to make your community stronger. Just one small thing. You can do that today. I can do that today. Let’s each do it together.
JoyPlusGrace 
A dear friend gave me a book entitled this back in February. I read the first 2 or 3 chapters, and decided that the next right thing was to remodel our kitchen. That weekend, we started demo, and a few weeks later moved well beyond the point of no return (or past the point where it was just a minor reno and not a full redo). Two weeks later, the world shut down for the pandemic, A few weeks after that we had no functioning kitchen. For over a month. With us and two teenagers. Living on takeout and quick meals and pizza, whatever could go in the microwave or oven, using paper plates and plastic utensils, and washing anything else in the bathroom sink. It felt SOOOOOO wrong. And it’s still not 100% done. But I stand in the kitchen over my enormous sink (my favorite thing in the whole kitchen) and realize that despite all the pain and annoyance and mess and sawdust, it was totally the next right thing.
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