“Are you as human as the rest of us?”

“Are you doing everything you can to keep your heart open in a world that seems to be going out of its way to shut it down?”

I’ve been praying really hard for clarity lately.  I’ve been praying really hard for guidance.  And in that, I’m probably not too different from a lot of us. 

A good many of us feel this urge to do…something. 

But not all of us are going to be called to protest.  Not all of us are going to be asked to bleed to death in our cars or in the snow.  Not many of us are going to be asked to write anthems; to energize millions of people. 

For a lot of us, that calling is something simpler, but just as difficult. We’re going to be asked to go deep inside ourselves.  To find our wounds, and to heal them…