I remember when George Floyd was murdered, one of my good friends was clueless to all the things going on in society. She had no idea what the talk of the day was. She hadn’t heard of his senseless killing. She didn’t hear it on the radio or see it on television. How in the world could she not know what was going on?!
I’ll tell you why.
She was consumed with caring for her dying husband. The weight she was carrying was her world! It was taking everything within her to watch the man she loved slowly fad away.
I also remember when Barak Obama became the first black president of the United States. Much like my friend, I too was in a similar situation. Although I was aware, I had no urge to celebrate (in my mind I wanted to). But my mother was dying. And trying to care for my children, care for her (along with my sisters), make ends meet and navigate through holding on and letting go of my marriage to my drug-addicted husband, my world was very small. It was enough trying to carry that weight that nothing else around me seemed to matter.
My heart just is very heavy thinking about the person today, that’s so consumed with the heaviness of their own world, that the current events of today just don’t matter.
They don’t matter when your spouse is dying. They don’t matter when your parent or child is dying. They don’t matter when you’re sick and can’t get well. They don’t matter when you just receive a diagnosis of cancer. They don’t matter when you just got laid off and are worried about paying your bills. They don’t matter when you’re going through a divorce. They just don’t matter….
What a blessing it is that so many of us have space in our worlds for the current events of the day to matter. We have space in our worlds to major in the minor things.
Be thankful! Be very, very thankful for that space. I’m sure that person with the small, heavy world would be willing to swap with you. It’s such a dark and lonely place to be.
One day your world will be too small to care about the current events of the day. 😞
*Tressa Jo
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