Mercy. please.

This morning my prayer is for mercy.

God have mercy.

Mercy over me.

Mercy over the women that I love and get to journey with at Sari Bari.

Mercy over broken relationships.

Mercy over situations that never should be…but are.

Mercy over our brokenness.

Mercy over my heart – that somehow my heart would stay soft toward those I perceive to be oppressors and abusers. 

Mercy over the blurry line between exploited and exploiter.

It's been a long week. A hard week. In the midst of celebration over buying our building there has also been hard news.

Last week the husband of an SB lady died, very suddenly. and my heart is heavy.

in the past 24 hrs i've heard a lot of hard news from various folks within the SB community.

my heart is heavy.

right now it all feels like too much.

So i plead for mercy.

and trust that God is with me, God is with us in the midst of hard/ugly/complicated situations.