Sometimes...

Sometimes I get overwhelmed by this world and the people in it.

It is often tempting to think that people suck and are hopeless, but as far as my experience goes, people keep proving this wrong.

Life is hard. Harder than we would like it to be sometimes, a lot of the time for some of us, but I don't think we should give up.

One of my favorite bands these days, Mumford & Sons*, have a song called "Roll Away Your Stone" Here are a few of my favorite lines from it...

"It seems as if all my bridges have been burned,
You say that’s exactly how this grace thing works
It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive at the restart"

I like it because I'm not sure what grace is... or if I believe in it. But let's face it, what am I sure I believe in? Hardly nothing. Because, it's all relative... but recent events in my life lead me to wonder about grace and more particularly the grace of human kindness.

All I am trying to say is, people aren't as bad as we sometimes condemn them to be. Life just makes it hard for people to be great all of the time.

Amen.