found online by Raymond
From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
2018 has been one long decade.
If I could sum up the past twelve months in a single word, it would be fatigue. Most of us aren’t as much sprinting to the finish line, as we are being dragged across it. We’re exhausted from the big and the distant stresses: from waking up every day for 365 days and pushing back against predatory politicians and toxic systems and corrupt legislation and human rights atrocities and Presidential Tweet tantrums and acts of treason. (Yes, that kind of sustained urgency will wear you out if your heart is working and your mind is right.)
But we’re tired from doing something else too, something far more personal.