It’s a very unsettling day.

The weather was the first portent if things to come.

I awoke to unseasonably warm winds swirling through the magnolia trees, scattering wild oak leaves up and out, and sending loose leaves and bits of trash scurrying up the drive.

It’s a dreary grey. Or is it brown? There is not a ray of sunlight to dispel the gloom.

Today I’m just as unsettled.

News has come of evil – horrific evil on the most innocent. My heart is troubled. My mind is confused. How can this happen?

I’ve heard another story, of evil struck down. Or is it? Unsettling. It remains to be seen.

Evil is present in the world. It should disturb us on the deepest level. I am disturbed today.

I will go in, and work on myself. On forgiving. On praying. On letting go of what I don’t understand. On asking what I can do – and doing it.

Letting go of the rest.

It’s raining now, and the wind has calmed.

So it will be with me.