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    TJ Smith documents their fluctuating emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic in their journal entry. They feel hopeful at times that everything will be okay, while also feeling hopeless about the unprecedented changes to daily life. Smith relies on their religious beliefs that God uses trials to build character. They believe living day to day without certainty about the future is acceptable given their faith that God knows and loves them. Smith also thinks the pandemic is teaching valuable life lessons to slow down and appreciate family, even if the present feels unpredictable. They feel for those in difficult situations and pray for people while helping in ways they can.

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    TJ Smith documents their fluctuating emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic in their journal entry. They feel hopeful at times that everything will be okay, while also feeling hopeless about the unprecedented changes to daily life. Smith relies on their religious beliefs that God uses trials to build character. They believe living day to day without certainty about the future is acceptable given their faith that God knows and loves them. Smith also thinks the pandemic is teaching valuable life lessons to slow down and appreciate family, even if the present feels unpredictable. They feel for those in difficult situations and pray for people while helping in ways they can.

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    TJ Smith Pandemic Journal#3 4-14-20

    It’s really shocking how much my emotions fluctuate under these circumstances. One

    minute I feel hopeless and upset or just disappointed with how incredibly different life is

    currently than I expected it would be, the next minute I am hopeful and I feel like everything is

    going to be just fine and good. I rely a lot on my religious beliefs in God to help me through this.

    One thing we believe in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that trials are allowed

    to happen, or sometimes given to us, by God. We believe that He knows each us perfectly

    because He is our Heavenly Father, and we’re His children who He also loves perfectly. I believe

    that because He knows us and loves us perfectly, He gives us trials or challenges to actually

    build our character and give us experience, that can actually lead to us being happier and more

    capable and giving us more depth of character. The reason I’m saying all of this is that because I

    believe that, even when I feel hopeless and like life is crumbling to pieces, I am able to feel ok

    with living day by day and not having any idea how the immediate future is going to play out.

    Even with religious beliefs aside, I think experiences like this are really good for everyone. The

    world is so busy and fast moving, but this is teaching people how much they love their families,

    and it’s an extremely unique opportunity to literally spend every single day around your

    families all day long. It’s slowing people down to just take a deep breath and get ahold of their

    lives, even if they aren’t predictable at the moment. I feel really bad for all of the people who

    are in really tough situations right now, with losing jobs, or those who are stuck with broken

    families, or any other really tough circumstances. I can’t offer any solution to all of those things,

    so I pray for those people and I do my best to help in other ways I am capable of helping in. The

    world is in commotion, I hope it gets better soon, and people find hope to hold on to.

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