I have been a person of compassion. Something didn't have to happen close to home for me to feel and understand and be compassionate, to send prayerful thoughts etc. I had read a post recently, a channel, reminding us....the human race...that the sadness we feel, has contributed to a delay in our ascension, our evolving to higher dimensional existence. So many explanations of the thoughts on the illusions around us, the contracts souls agree to before coming here or while they are here on another level.... The outcome to bring about an intended reaction or a release. An event or action being a catalyst for a shift in consciousness. Part of me feels that what I am going to post, has no place on this website. The other part of me felt the need to write about it and post. Five miles from my home at a shopping mall, a woman and her ten year old daughter walked to their car. The ten year old was raped and her mom stabbed to death. This is rare here. So much has happened in this world, this is just another story, yet such an atrocity. I am sensitive, my son as well. He has had night terrors lately about murders. I send light, give him suggestions on how to pray and change the energy of what he sees, yet he struggles still. Tonight I struggled....I cried so much as I imagined what this woman and her daughter had endured. I do acknowledge we are evolving and embrace the divinity in all things, but shocked still and saddened when things happen that are not in line with our loving heart. I do not understand, how we should view correctly. Without adding sadness. We are constantly being told a number of this and that, from releasing, to it's an illusion, to everything has a purpose etc. When you are a loving being it is hard to ignore, being numb is not an option. Giving in to 3rd dimensional behavior and emotion doesn't feel right either. Where in lies the balance?