Tough Times

There is so much pain in the world. It is hard to reconcile. It is hard to know – to digest, to live with, to stop thinking about, once you’ve begun.

We numb the pain with fake happy, shove it down, turn a blind eye. Or, maybe we do care and throw some money at it. What can we do? We don’t know what else we can do. I don’t have the answers.
I just feel the pain.

I want to hug sweet babies in pain… let them know they are loved, found, and healed in Him.

I want to hug sweet mommies, who have lost their child… at least for now until heaven.

I want to encourage husbands whose wife is sick, dying… or in a coma.

I want to comfort the laborer who has lost a limb… or the sweet, elderly man whose mobility, already so constricted, has fallen down stairs. It’s so much.

God, what would you have us do? What would you have us do? The times and the situations… they are so heavy and so hard. Our hearts break, and we yearn to help beyond what we are able or what feels appropriate in these times. We don’t know what to do to process, to help, to speak, to be… This is where the Holy Spirit comes in.

Lord God, We thank you for the Holy Spirit. Please show us, with each little step, every single word, with our gifts, our time, our resources, our emotions and our heart. Please show us how we can positively contribute to others, sharing your love and bringing aid to the hurting. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.