Darlin,' you are alive at a most amazing time. I have often wondered what it would have been like to live at different points in history. What would it have been like to see Jesus? To actually see Him walking and teaching and performing miracles? What would it have been like to be a Gladiator and face a man to a fight to the death? Or be a participant (or bystander) during the AMERICAN REVOLUTION?!! To see our country in it's infancy - to be a part of that history that affected and changed the world? Or, what would it have been like to be a Jew in the early days of Nazi Germany? Or live in the rough and tumble days of the American Wild West? Any and all of those times would have been fraught with exhilaration and devastation ... just like these days.

This is an amazing time in American history, as well as World history. And you and I have a front row seat. We don't know every act of the production playing out before us, but we do know ultimately, how the play ends. Life is not a straight line. There are many curves, ups and downs, twists and turns. You may be down now, but it won't last. You may be up later. That won't last either. Make an effort to enjoy every dip, every bump, every pothole in the road because life is full of them. And it's only your faith in the one waiting for you at the end of the journey that makes the journey bearable, and worth taking. You CAN deal with this. You ARE stronger than you realize. You WILL succeed, you WILL overcome. And someday, years from now you will look back on your journey and you'll be glad you had the chance to be here for THIS specific moment of time, of history. I promise.
God bless you. I've prayed for you.