To perceive is to suffer. ~Aristotle
I cannot share all of what is on my heart this day, because it is not about me but about others who are close to me: my husband's parents needing assistance a day's drive away, families working through some painful emotional issues, a friend whose mother refuses to accept her children because of skin color, an exhausted and depressed friend whose house is currently being cleaned up of smoke damage, a husband who had a near-miss from a chunk of tunnel ceiling falling through the windshield on him while he was driving hundreds of miles away, a woman who has been in constant pain for years now unable to work, people with financial problems all over and there are others...so, so many others.
I know there is much more sadness and far more atrocities beyond these things in the world, but these are the ones that touch me personally, because these people I know, people I love. How does God do this every moment with every living being?
This is one of the reasons I fast one day each week, Wednesday, this day. If for no other reason but to remind myself that others are suffering...and to just weep with them, for them, because most of the time I do not even know for what I should pray. The heart has a wordless language that my Lord hears.
~ Still, my Lord, how do You do this every moment? ~
