John Pavlovitz essay.
I loved this piece by John Pavlovitz.
www.johnpavlovitz.com
You should be a little weary right now.
If you are, be grateful.
That is a good thing.
That weariness is confirmation that your heart is working properly.
It is your humanity responding to so much inhumanity around you.
It is evidence of your goodness still fighting to feel useful.
Your heavy fatigue is the internal alarm of an empathy that will not allow you to proceed unaffected while so many grieve here, while war rages half a world away, while the planet burns, while there is so much brokenness in the place you call home.
To not feel any of that would be the red flag.
To not be brought to tears now and again would be a far more worrisome condition.
To not occasionally be leveled by the sheer volume of the burdens in your orbit would be a symptom of a far greater sickness within you.
In days like these when so many are in such pain and when so many people have chosen not to be changed by that fact—your heaviness is understandable and actually quite beautiful.
You should be weary right now.
I'm glad that you still are.
