Dear internet, we need a break 💔

The internet is kind of like a bad boyfriend. It can be nice occasionally, but when it comes down to it, has very little redeeming qualities anymore. Long gone are the days of terrible AOL dial up, where you'd sit in excited anticipation and hope no one tried to call you. While I know it was very quickly not, it seemed like such an innocent time. I don't remember hearing about cyber bullying, though I'm sure it happened. Besides being sad you were second tier in your friends MySpace top 8, it was nothing a few Limewire song downloads couldn't cure.  

But today, I don't think there's a day that goes by when I don't see something horribly sad. I have a problem reading (and replying to) comments on news articles that leave me feeling frustrated, argumentative and heartbroken. 

It's not hard to see that we live in such a broken world, but it is hard to love people who are vicious, mean and completely uncaring about it. Mostly I just want to punch them in the face. 

How do you pray for people like that? 

I don't want to pray for someone who thought it would funny to make a meme about a sweet baby with a facial deformity, whose mothers heart broke when she saw it, knowing an already hard journey is going to be made harder. 

Teenagers who watched a man drown and did nothing but record it while mocking him and laughing in the background. 

Or a group of kids, who bullied a child so badly she killed herself. She was 12. It's almost incomprehensible , except it isn't. Not for that family or the hundreds who have had to deal with the same.  

I don't want to do it, but its not about what I want. I can start with myself and my own heart and pray that a God that is so much bigger than this broken world can show me how to be more like Him.