Heavy Heart

I've been really sad and tearful this week. As I've been getting to know the girls' stories at work, I've been feeling really burdened and overwhelmed by brokenness. Several of them have had more awful things happen to the them in 14 or 15 years than most of us have in a lifetime.
In addition to this and some of my own significant personal stuff, I just heard about a college friend whose full-term baby was born stillborn. A sweet little girl.
My heart is very heavy.

I came across these quotes on grace and I keep them in my desk drawer at work. I've pulled them out several times in the past week to help keep me going.
"We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all. " ~G.H. Spurgeon
"I do not understand the mystery of grace- only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us." ~Anne Lamott