I frequent Facebook, daily. I enjoy reading my friends updates and I love the posts on the Catholic Faith. I love my never ending supply of Catholic opinion blogs and Pro-Life news. I enjoy chatting and getting to know people, without Facebook, I wouldn't have the pleasure of knowing at all. Regularly, my news feed is bombarded with images of violence, or parents who did or are doing horrific things to their children, animals starved or beaten, war torn areas of the world, plane crashes with bodies strewn about, agenda's that I am neither for or against. The images that I see are forever etched in my mind and heart. Some of the stories I've unsuspectingly read have caused me to all out cry daily about the state of our world in general. I want to surround myself with beautiful images, stories of courage and bravery but yet monsters and monstrous images cloud my news and make it hard to see the beauty. 
I am the proud mommy of 4 beautiful children on Earth and a few in Heaven. These beautiful kids drive me crazy, brighten my day, give me a huge purpose and make me want great things both in their lives and in the world for them. I don't think my kids will ever know the world as it was even just 20 years ago, things are changing so fast. There was a time when kids just played without play dates, or could eat chips and drink a coke and think nothing of it. Those days are gone. There was a time when people sat down to a meal both at home or out and there were no cell phones in sight, they weren't even a thing yet, and people would talk to each other. Those days are gone. There was a time when you wouldn't be bombarded with horrors, wondering where the beauty was, because we didn't have hand held computer systems continuously feeding us these awful visions and stories that can't be unseen or unread. Those days are gone. It's hard not to incur a jaded view of life when you see these things so clearly and continuously. Sick curiosity causes you to click open a news story better left unread due to the sad, sick and most times gruesome subject matter. Most of us know and understand that our media, both left and right, is playing a role in brainwashing or leading us astray from real truths. Is it any wonder we sickly click on a story that really doesn't need be read by a wholesome soul, because we are looking for the information our news media doesn't say, won't say and are paid to keep hidden from us.
Getting back to my 4 beautiful babies, well each one of them is the sunshine on my soul. They show me the light of Christ, every day. They haven't yet invested in that jaded view coming from social media. They don't even understand the purpose of it at all, except that mommy posts pictures to it. I had a discussion with a friend after Mass the other day, she was talking about the horrors being faced by Israel, how Tel Aviv is burning, all the sins committed daily in our world, and acceptance of all sorts of atrocities, she wonders what is going to happen because something has got to give. I looked over at my little son, Michael, happily running around and I said to her, that all will glorify God in the end. That eventually, a mass awakening will bring about a global change and that good will conquer. I feel this way because God has given me so many beautiful blessings, especially since I wasn't supposed to have any children and here I am with 4 beauties. Things will change, and it will change for them. They may even be a part of that change, but regardless of how much worse it gets, all will glorify God in the end. I can't control what comes across my news feed. I can control what I choose to allow my senses to take in. The less violent and horrific the better. I want to look for the beauty today and I find that reflected in the eyes of my children. God blessed me with them. The world is surely going on.
