I don’t plan to grand stand or pretend that I can say something to fix it. I neither live there nor have any chance of being drafted since I am so disabled that the military recruiters that got ahold of my information in college, gave up a long time ago. I do have family in Israel right now however. They have been over there for years doing missionary work and Christian teaching. They also have several kids and I worry about all of them. I worry that the current situation will escalate. That this will be the the start of another world war. It has been started over less before after all. I’m tired of constantly seeing negative news. More lives destroyed and changed for the worse. Another fight, another horrible environmental disaster, another natural disaster. It seems like it constantly gets worse.

Then there’s the other part of me that remains disconnected. I’m not a part of it and I’ve seen it all before. Desensitized to the bad because of the frequency.

Emotional calluses.

The existence of them on its own also terrifies me. I want to remain emotionally open and not lose sight of the good. So in my own safe bedroom I pray for de escalation. Both for other people and for myself. Even if we are not all being effected in the same way, we are all touched by it. At least as long as you don’t live under a rock. I would never pretend that my life is on the line like so many other people, but at this point I think we all need a win.