Mary Davis wrote a lovely prayer in today's reading which sends blessings and peace to those touched by:
- war
- grief
- illness
- abuse
- discrimination
- depression
- poverty
- loneliness
Unless you have been active military, most of us in the U.S. are clueless about the horrors of war. Any of the others listed, however, could hit very "close to home." I was with a friend last night whose mother and husband passed recently within a month of each other. We have both been alive around seven decades, and we agreed that grief and loneliness are just facts of life now. We have to work at it to get out of the house and be social, or depression too easily follows.
I would venture that most folks have been touched by one or more in the above list. Let us be gentle with one another!
Leta
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