Thanks for sharing your perspective.

When I read the words "too much damage..." and "so much damage...", I put on a certain pair of spectacles and I think like this:

History has been replete with so much damage, suffering and pain. That should be obvious. If anything of what we know about history is in even the tiniest way accurate, the 20th century was the bloodiest, most gruesome time in memory. Millions and millions were slaughtered and murdered, and ten times that amount of people and families were smashed because of that. The Soviet, China CCP, Cambodia, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. Hundreds of millions.

What Americans are going through today does not compare. Paying a credit card bill? Kind of beats slow starvation, malnutrition and disease with zero hope at all, doesn't it?

I'm not attempting to belittle the tangible pain and difficulty of the current times, but rather, to suggest some perspective.

And, if I had to describe it, I'd say what American and the world are going through now is above all, psychological and spiritual pain. And yes, that's tangible and real.

But if one can realize what sort of dark, dystopian plans Evil had laid for the entire world, one can begin to recognize that NO PRICE is too much. No "damage" is too much, wherein one should just lie down and accept the worst kind of slavery for millennia to avoid that 'damage'.

In the end, for me, I trust overwhelmingly in God, and I see the current tribulations as a grace from God. Instead of global genocide and total destruction and far, far worse, we are confronted with a painful, difficult time that is designed to lead us OUT of the pain and difficulty, not INTO it.

On that sense and conviction, I rest my sense of perspective.

Anyway, that's mine. I'm glad you could at least express yours here.

Wishing you well....