Collective Anxiety

We had our volunteers meeting today.  The leader changed the topic and asked the group to express our feelings.  I expected many responses, but the one that came was somewhat different than I expected.

The most expressed feeling was - A collective anxiety.

We are all over 60, so our sons and daughters are not in the regular army.  A few have nephew and nieces serving, some have children in the reserve but majority do not have direct blood relatives in the service.  Yet, the most common response was, "I fear that our soldiers will die". 

A lone soldier died yesterday, his picture and story was advertised in the social media, and 20,000 arrived at the funeral last night.  His grandfather sister is one of our volunteers. She told me that the family had to ask for help from his unit commander to be able to get to the burial spot to pray over it. 

A collective anxiety; Fear for our young people serving in Gaza. Everyone expresses the same fear and understands the next person who feels the same….The collective response is Prayer.

203rd Day of Praise -

Thank You God  for uniting us in Prayer; it is the collective response for the collective fear, thank You God for bringing peace soon.

Praying in sadness,

Orith