My heart is breaking.

My heart breaks for the souls that choose to live through this hard life without Jesus’ comforting embrace.

My heart breaks for every racist comment and hateful glare when all i can see is a beautiful coloured face smiling at me.

My heart breaks with every sexual slur.

My heart breaks for every silenced word.

My heart breaks for every unwanted child - living or dead.

My heart breaks for the ones who choose to find their value in other people who will only hurt them. 

My heart breaks for the ones who put up with abuse (physical/emotional/mental/verbal) because they think they’re not worth anything more than that.

My heart breaks for the ones who settle for things or relationships because they don’t think there’s anything better out there.

My heart breaks for the ones who think ALL parents are crappy. That don’t know the truest simplest love of a good parent.

My heart breaks for the ones who have no one to share success with.

My heart breaks for the ones only pushed down in their darkest moments.

My heart breaks for the ones scorned by the church. The one place were they should feel safest. 

My heart breaks for the refugees, their homes ripped apart and their new one torn between a warm welcome and a hate-filled locked door.

My heart breaks for the broken ones, who don’t even know just how broken they are.

My heart breaks for the hypocrites, the holier-than-thous and the ones who don’t understand.

My heart breaks for the ones who don’t see God as good and completely in love with having them by his side for eternity. 

My heart breaks for every heart that is broken. 

Every soul that is lost.

Every fight not nearly over.

Every low moment. 

Every high one.

Every drunken one.

Every mistake. 

My heart breaks for my country. For my continent. For my planet. 

I think what most people don't realize is, the end of the world isn't coming. - It's already here.

I think what most people don’t realize, is that the end of the world isn’t coming. 

It’s not coming. 

It’s already here. 

We all expected the end of the world to come with fire and brimstone and the sun falling out of the sky. With computers taking over or zombies chasing us down. 

The end of the world would come with such certainty of what it was and no one was safe. 

We’ve been “anticipating” and “preparing” for it for hundreds of years. But it’s here. And we caused it. 

It snuck up on us and it was our fault. 

The end of the world has come. 

To the tune of war, hatred, and violence. With a soundtrack of screaming children (the ones allowed to be born that is) and gunshots and all kinds of sexual and racial slurs. 

Wrong is now right and right is now wrong.

The Christians and God fearers are screaming hate while the atheists are preaching love. 

Everything is backwards and we’ve brought this mess on ourselves. 

We’ve killed our planet. We’ve killed our neighbours. We’ve killed our freedom. And we’ve killed our love. 

The world as we know it is ending. Everything we know will change. 

And we did it to ourselves. 

It’s your 20th birthday today. 
I hope it’s a good day for you. 
The warm fuzzy feelings have been gone for a long time now but i still want you to be happy. I want good things for you. 
It feels like centuries but perhaps that’s for the best. Time heals all wounds right? 
I hope someone makes you laugh today. 

Home happens when someone looks past our ugly and into our beautiful. Home happens when we make a disaster of things and no one flinches. Home happens when someone cares for us enough to make us feel rare instead of strange. Home happens when we can be inconvenient and still have a place to belong. Home happens when someone names the good things we are. Home happens in bedtime routines and family rituals, in the embrace of a friend or the arms of a lover, and when two strangers honor the humanity in each other. Home happens at the end, when our bodies are failing us but the love surrounding doesn’t.

Home can happen when we learn how to love who we are.

- Dr. Kelly Flanagan "Home is Where the Grace Is"