learning to breathe

It’s hard to not feel so burdened when evil wins. When the cheating spouse leaves their partner and stays with the one they had an affair with. Multiple shootings and acts of violence in the news. People misusing power to control and harm their citizens driving them to extreme poverty and famine in some countries. The abuser who very recently abused gets away with what he’s done and is now happily married, suddenly “changed”. The children neglected and abused by parents or family members or daycare workers. The really ugly stuff that sometimes we end up coming face to face with whether that’s in our personal lives or it just seems like the news headlines have something detrimental to say on the daily.  It is hard to remember the good when these things happen. It’s hard to not feel a ball of anger well up or sadness and if you’re a Christian say “I don’t get it God, why??? How could you allow this?” First and foremost, if our souls feel unsettled by these things that’s because they ...