Things that are breaking my heart

• Someone asked me yesterday if I had considered taking a break from ministry to be with my kids more. There was so much judgement. So much not knowing me.  It sucked.

• An acquaintance who shares many worlds with me was venting about not knowing anyone who could talk to a group about the intersection of simple living and faith.  My heart might have fallen out of my chest and rolled across the floor.  It made me feel so unknown.

• My friend Patti is dead.
• Fuck cancer.

• My brother Tim having to go back to Beirut yesterday. My heart aches for him, Annie, Mary and Isaac.

• Craig. Who I have never met but who is newly unemployed and life around it is so complicated.

• This election. People not being heard or known or educated.

• Trying to sort out hope. Trying to plan. Trying to dream.