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Finding Beauty is Hard Sometimes: 7 ways to find Doorways of light amid a crisis

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It's been almost a month since my last post, and in reflecting on the reason, I discovered a truth. Sometimes it's difficult to find Doorways. Doorways are moments of beauty, joy, or emotion that connect us to Something Bigger. Moments that make us smile or reveal the Divine at work in our world. But I've been struggling to find Doorways each day, let alone moments significant enough to write about. Like many around the country, I've been staying home since the middle of March. Nine weeks (and counting) of isolation from the community. Though I'm a practiced homebody who loves a good routine, my routine is becoming a rut. And it shows up each night when I sit down to write my DTH (Doorway, Thankful, Help)  prayer   for the day. In the past, I'd noticed occasional challenges in searching for Doorways, and they usually coincided with "bad days," but it didn't bother me. In fact, I enjoyed the work of looking for a tiny sliver of beauty a