Ache

My heart is aching right now. NO, something hasn't happened to me or mine. I just seem today to be so aware of horrible things people do to each other and animals. I can't understand the hate that resides in hearts. I do NOT watch the news anymore. Haven't in years. Call me what you will, but my heart breaks with the meanness and self-centeredness in today's world. So I choose not to watch the newscasts. I choose instead to pray. We are a civilized people. We have souls. We have minds. We have love. Still we lash out at the innocent with indescribable acts of such terror that I can hardly take it all into my being. Such charades people live. Can you imagine right now, right this second, right this millisecond that atrocities are happening in your own communities? It is with huge thankfulness, I send my respect to those who deal with this every day....to those who are on the front line defending our children, our animals, our weak, our helpless. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you all. Tomorrow, I will be better. I promise. But today.....I ache.