I was rushing along yesterday and put too many thoughts into one paragraph. The trouble is that, like all the people in the world right now, I am watching the ongoing configuration in the Middle East at the same time that I have my own private dramas playing out in many and sundry ways.
Bombs and the rumors of bombs are falling on the one side of the world and here in my house, I am trying to mediate the griefs and troubles of family and friends that don’t have any immediate and easy answers.
Sometimes people decide to do the wrong thing. Sometimes people are cruel for no obvious reason. Sometimes it appears to be very clear to everyone around a person how they might set about climbing out of the pit they have dug for themselves, but they themselves can’t see it. Too often, all a praying person can do is stand by helplessly while rage falls like darkness over a beloved friend or family member. What are you supposed to do when you find yourself caught in the orbit of someone who, for whatever reason, has decided to disobey or disbelieve? How should you feel? What should you do if someone persists in the way of death and will not turn, however imperceptibly, towards life?
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