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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Julia Loveless

Good morning. Every day we are met with an onslaught of information. At the tap of our fingers, we have access to a plethora of knowledge, fact, opinion and a fair share of fake news. Buried under this onslaught, it鈥檚 close to a miracle that we manage to carry on at all - and don鈥檛 get utterly overcome by the flood. Take global news alone; it is impossible for each of us to shoulder the sheer number of innumerable, unactionable disasters that we hear about.

Faced with this stark reality of an utterly broken world and finding within ourselves not nearly enough influence to change things; where do we turn? How do we channel the frustration, the grief and how do we move from being completely paralysed into doing something. I like to remind myself of the instruction 鈥渨hen you don鈥檛 know what to do, do the thing in front of you.鈥� We may not have the capacity or the access to influence the world on a global, national or even regional scale. But we can show up each day and choose to bless, choose to honour, choose to love the world and the people around us. As Mother Teresa said; 鈥渄on鈥檛 say it鈥檚 only a drop in the ocean 鈥� the whole ocean is made up of drops.鈥�

God, when I am overwhelmed by the state of the world and paralysed by the enormity of the situations that engulf us, help me show up in my own context and offer love, patience, peace and joy to a world that is crying out for a little kindness.

Amen.