These last several weeks, I feel like I have lived out, in many ways, that famous opening of Charles Dickens’ classic “A Tale of Two Cities”, describing the times surrounding the French Revolution:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”