Sometimes, I really don’t know what to do with a world where so many people are living in persistent terror.
...especially, since my life is so relatively free of such things.
I feel many things about this dilemma, including my ability to be indifferent, as well as an inability to embrace it all at times. While I can still pursue and find kinds of joy (in spite of the tension I feel), I can never fully expunge traces of sadness until we all are able to be free and prosper.
Perhaps this is the essence of true shalom, where no individual is fully at peace without awareness that his neighbor is too.
The fact that the knowledge, not to mention the reality, is bigger than what we can handle or design should lead us to recognizing that we need some kind of help — from a kind of power that only something divine can bring.
