Saving The World
Beauty, and babies, and being light in this place
Journal: 12 August, 2025, evening.
These are some of the things I saw when Henri and I were out for our evening walk just now, after the thunderstorm. I had gone to the dentist earlier for my six month cleaning and while I was sitting in the chair there, all relaxed and idle, there was this enormous boom of thunder, which startled us both. We jumped! I got sprinkled going to the car but made it home before the downpour and I think it rained for probably 45 minutes, which was wonderful. We needed it.
How can we not love this gorgeous world if we but look at it? So much richness, everywhere you look. The squirrel leavings, the tiny blossoms, the raindrops on the rose, the rabbit. The rabbit! Just look at those ears, those eyes.
Henri has had his post walk dinner and he is snoozing now: the sleep of the innocent and just. Would that we all had as clear a conscience. He is such a good boy.
I donated to a go fund me today, one for a four month old baby that needed fairly serious lung surgery to be able to survive and grow up. The parents writing in their explanation said that they had health insurance, but it did not cover nearly everything and they would probably spend somewhere around $16,000 out of pocket just for the incidentals needed while the child was waiting for surgery and their insurance would not cover all the costs of the surgery and it was a very expensive surgery and treatment and they were embarrassed about having to ask but this was their baby, their beloved child. What would you not do for your child?
This is a conversation I have regularly with God: why do some people have so very much and others must do without when the medical treatment is available to save them but they can’t afford it so they suffer and die while rich men do whatever rich men do. I do not approve of this, to put it mildly, and I do what I can, when I can, but unfortunately I am not one of those rich people. And I can’t help everyone and I dislike having to choose but doing something is infinitely better than doing nothing.
I will refrain from getting into the topic of why, when we are one of the richest nations in the world, we do not take better care of our people.
How do we save the world? One person at a time. Do what you can.
Tom and I lighted five candles at this morning‘s Mass, each for a different need. There are so many needs, and so many people whose hearts are hurting and whose lives are in chaos. If you have peace in your home and in your life, your personal life, say a prayer of gratitude for that, or just be thankful, so very thankful.
Well. I didn’t mean to go down into the grittiness of life quite so deeply in this evening writing but sometimes your thoughts just take you where they take you. If you’re still reading, thank you for that. I hope that I inspired you to give a helping hand to someone. It counts, you know, and we need that in our nation right now. We need compassion and kindness, and the strength to stand up for goodness and for what is right and just. We are in a storm of evil in our nation at the moment, and I say that very seriously because I am a person who believes there is evil in this world, purposeful evil, and there are people who give themselves over to that evil. We need so much goodness and love and light to counterbalance that, to sway the balance toward light and love.
May we always stand for goodness. May we always be people of light.
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