Reflect

Turn on the news, refresh your social media feed, or glance at the newspaper rack in the grocer, and you can learn about events and tragedies happening all across the globe. The facts are often hard to comprehend, and the commentary on these events can make your head spin. With all of the world’s news at our fingertips at any given hour, it can be hard to decipher what is true, exaggerated, or blatantly false. It’s hard to know where to place our trust. But turning to your own lived experience can sometimes be a helpful guide. When you hear hurtful things about groups of people, when you are told someone doesn’t belong, when you are asked to believe something that requires you to disregard your compassion, you can ask: Has this been my experience of my neighbor and other humans? Fear tears us apart, but trusting your loving heart is one way to help repair this fractured world.