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I've been perplexed and sad this weekend and I find myself "drawing myself apart,*" sifting through my thoughts and feelings. I wrote this post and then deleted it and now I'm putting it here again. Here are some things (and admittedly, some of them bump up against each other--there's the rub) that have caught my attention as I seek peace and equilibrium once again between what I know and what I may not know. (It may or may not be helpful to you but they are the kinds of things I would want to share and chat with you about if you were sitting in my living room so here they are.)  

"she became herself with tears" by Caitlin Connolly

"A Saint is a Sinner who Keeps on Trying" Dale Renlund

"Because God Put You in my Path" by Fiona Givens
Or: "And it came to pass that the Lord of the Vineyard wept"
(there's no title so I've made ones of my own)

"woman debating two truths" by Caitlin Connolly (also featured on the cover of Neylan McBaine's book)

*Where Can I Turn for Peace?

"On Dealing with Uncertainty" by Bruce Hafen
(especially the concepts of concentric rings
and the paradigm of optimists, pessimists, and improvers)

"Enduring" by Eugene England