Thread by @TheJaredMonroe

As a father of two, I really really struggle to think about the #Uvalde massacre for more than about 5 seconds. It’s just too much for me to fathom. I still feel sick. The thought of losing your child in such a horrific manor is unbearable enough. To know that little boy or

girl’s final moments on this earth were lived in unimaginable fear and horror is beyond human comprehension. I don’t know how most of them go on. I don’t know how I could take another step. I don’t know how I could eat or sleep. It’s been about 5 seconds now. I can’t.

I so often feel guilty for “turning it off”. And I know some of you do too. To close yourself off from feeling too deeply because it’s just too painful to truly imagine yourselves in their shoes. I wrestle with that. All I know is that Christ came and died to carry the weight

of the world so we don’t have to. Because we can’t. I’m not at all encouraging anyone to pretend pain doesn’t happen. Because that is real. If it’s your own pain, that’s something you must process. If it’s the pain of others, we’re called to carry it with them. But Jesus wants

you to invite Him into that process. And sometimes we have to “turn it off” so that we can be all that He wants us to be exactly where He has us. Sin is real. And this world is broken. Leaning on Jesus is the only way I know to get through it.