Just thinking about something. A lot has happened to our world, in our world, and thus, to one degree or another, to all of us, in the last ... at least six-ish years. For example, we've lived through 45, January 6, an epic global pandemic with over a million Americans dying of COVID-19, massacres of innocent people happening in our country on an almost non-stop basis... a lot. Just this week, 19 children slaughtered, and two adults. Right before that, innocent people in a grocery store, just for shopping while black. It's all too much to bear, and that's just what we've gone through together, as a world and/or as a country. I personally have also gone through a lot--a lot--in those same years.
So what is striking me this evening is simply this: tread gently. I think we are all way more traumatized than we sometimes realize. As we go through our day to day lives, let's all try to be kind to each other, and ourselves. Try to see beyond the surface to the weight that we are all carrying right now. We may each be in varying processes and stages of trying to carry it, to let go of it, to work through it, to make sense of it... let's try extra intentionally to be kind to each other. Just take that extra beat, that extra pause, to think about our words and actions. That little bit of extra kindness just might change the world.
