This week’s SojoMail features an article by Jeannie Rose Barksdale, who writes that the Trump administration has made many feel powerless and overwhelmed — but there is a path forward: Lately, it has been far easier to despair than to love concretely. The Trump administration’s strategy of flooding the zone has made me feel powerless and overwhelmed — which is, as Adam Russell Taylor recently described it, precisely the point. Even while wrestling with lament, I’ve wanted to move toward contributing to addressing injustice to counter the pervasive injustice that occupies so much of our news. But I’ve just not known how. I’ve felt that nothing in my sphere of direct influence is grand enough to move any kind of needle. But being a faithful follower of Christ is, in fact, less about giving a virtuoso solo performance and more often playing a small part in a great work we cannot fully comprehend, something I repeatedly fail to do even as I wring my hands over all the big issues that plague our country. Here’s how we can love our neighbors at this moment, not in isolation, but as members of a great collective, sharing in each other’s small acts of love. | 
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