My mind is clouded with cynicism. I read the news a bit today on my lunch break and started to fill with grief and despair. My hope in the 'higher good' and my hope in general has been dissolving, but this was a big thick icing on the cake.
My personal problems are miniscule. Everything was put into perspective. I don't have problems.
The news of what happened in Conneticut is ...horrifying..I can only send my prayers to the families involved...I plan to sit with them in their grief.
The empathy and pain is ripping right through me, as it should. I'm no longer afraid of it, allowing myself to feel is allowing the threads that connect us all to strengthen. They are not alone, I am not alone, you are not alone, WE are not alone. We all feel pain, sadness, horror, grief, fear, lonliness and loss together...we are all connected.
Just sitting...praying...and finding a small glimpse of hope in that.