The broken heart

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
Mother Teresa
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it is out there
the pain that cannot be carried

so many people
torn apart
by fear and hate
by insecurity
and by thoughts that tear them down
and make them
less
there are debris everywhere
broken relationships
broken lives
I want to ignore the mess
I do not want to see
do not want to feel
I want to carefully
creep through life
avoiding it all
but these are precious souls
and the Sacred Heart is broken
and mine must be too
as those who carry the
Sacred
who have Sacred Presence
who are called to be Sacred Presence
we must look
we must see
we must listen
we must hear
we are called
to care
we may not have the answers
we may not know what to do
we may have our own pain
but we are called
to be
present
and in our presence
God is present
too