By Jack Adam Weber
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World
Many ignore the news in the hopes of preserving their peace and happiness. Indeed, this is a choice we can exercise at any time, and unfortunately, even our entire lives. I understand the need to break from news, and I understand a lot of news is relatively trivial, if not a lie. I also understand it hurts to learn about what’s going on in the world. It’s stressful enough just putting food on the table, paying the bills, and living each day with some hope.
But the human spirit was meant to stretch, a lot. And we need to keep stretching, growing beyond our comfort zone. Because our comfort zone is shrinking in on us from the outside in, if you’ve been following the news. In response, we have to stretch our hearts and actions wider just to offset the chaotic encroachments of fundamentalists, deniers, haters, and sociopaths.
