How are you digesting all that awful information out there, is it weighing heavy as it is with me? I just cannot fathom the depths of evil pooled in a man like P*tin and the mentality of those who willingly follow his lead. How do you march and drive and fly and angle your weapon into a peaceable country and start obliterating innocent people and all the things they have built and lived in and loved, and live with yourself afterward. How do you admire the man who tells you to do so? And how does that evil man think he can ever gain whatever little thread of respect he had in this world, now that he has proven himself to be another version of H*tler. He is destroying his own country along with his decimation of Ukran*an cities, how did he ever believe this would be a big win for him?
Why such evil exists in a world where we could truly all live in harmony and without basic need if we would all just rise to that simple concept… is beyond my comprehension. It would be so easy. How did we evolve into something so different. Well…. some of us. This is where the concept of an all seeing, all loving, all knowing, all powerful Creator fails me. It feels more like we were an experiment that is failing, rapidly. Or was he/she/they like the surgeon who’s intent is to save a life but nicks a main artery in the process and we slowly bleed out. If you find comfort in religion, my intent is not to mock your beliefs. I just don’t see it, with all my heart I don’t feel it. I believe more in the power of good people and I pray for that most of all.
I am so impressed by the tenacity, the raw courage of the Leader and people of Ukra*ne. I hope they prevail, I hope they will be able to return to their country and rebuild, despite the destruction, and I hope we all live to see it. My prayers for them are simple.. I am a spiritual person, if not religious. I pray they rise like a phoenix from the ashes and overcome the monster’s attempted extermination. And I pray this country gets it’s shit together and finds more unity among us, rising from the ashes of the political discourse that is also so.. unnecessary. Don’t we all want the same basic things? We do, if you don’t fall for the talking heads with their own agendas.
I have one tattoo on my 57 year old body – and it is the phoenix, it is my prayer.
Everything you said. You said it so perfectly, no comment could be more articulate.
You articulated the feelings and frustration that many of us share. When one problem improves (new Covid cases are at a 2-year low) some new trouble grabs our attention — like Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Why does evil exist and continue to prosper? No Minister has ever explained it satisfactorily to me. But St. Teresa of Ávila said that God (or good) has no body on earth but ours. So I pray for Pres. Zelensky and Pres. Biden as well as the humanitarians helping Ukraine.
I pray- out to the universe-twice every day- now more often than that. I find I shake my head in disbelief far too often each day. My world gets smaller by the minute it seems. It all feels so dangerous out there. Then today, a nurse at a drs appt I had, chatted with me for about 10 minutes- total stranger and random about our kids weddings, choosing to have kids, our exes etc. SO warm and comforting. I grab onto those moments and hold tight.
I donate as much as I can to help- you know I have very little – if only everyone gave even a little to help the world -so much money wasted on garbage. sigh…