“The world is going to end tomorrow. That is, according to the Mayan calendar. If it does not end on 12-21-12, the day will be the shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere – more darkness than any other 24-hour period.
We don’t require calendars to know we live in an often dark world. The carnage in Connecticut last Friday casts a painful shadow on our national psyche. In her recent new book HELP THANKS WOW: the Three Essential Prayers, Anne Lamott writes, “There are no words for the broken hearts of people losing people, so I ask God with me in tow, to respond to them with graciousness and encouragement enough for the day.”
