"The world has changed..."

"I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost..."

I didn't write an entry yesterday because honestly I didn't feel like it. I received some news I didn't want, nothing serious just a little disappointing. It was just an all around kind of crummy day.

I was thinking tonight of something to write about & had it all planned. Then I was watching the news & changed my mind. The world around me is in such turmoil; the particular news item I saw was about Syria. I saw disturbing images of children that had been used as human shields. What struck me the most was seeing a little boy lying in the back of a pick up truck, I'm not sure if he was alive or dead, he looked to be around the same age as my son, three or four years old.

I saw other images of mothers running down the streets from gunfire grasping their children for dear life. A man very candidly said "why will no one help us, we are people not animals".

Kind of puts my world in perspective. Maybe things didn't go the way I was hoping, perhaps I was inconvenienced by events in my day, but all in all my world is pretty great. I have much to be thankful for, a free & safe country I call home, a wonderful home to live in, a family, knowing my son is lying warmly in his bed & I have food in my fridge, just to name a few.

I cannot explain why these things happen in our world. I know where hope & peace comes from, but my heart and mind have a hard time processing such atrocities.

"The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true".

What I come away with tonight is a thankful heart, but a troubled heart. We cannot cease in praying for justice & peace in the world.

(Quotes are from Lord of The Rings)