As messages pour in from all over the globe, asking for prayers and hope and wisdom, one’s role in all of it can seem quite overwhelming. A coming together of the Synodal Fathers that seems more divisive than unifying; The doctrines of the Faith under attack from all sides; Education that tends toward indoctrination rather than the expansion of the mind; Political races both in my home country and abroad that give us more of the same; Christians being slaughtered in the name