My facts are different, but the same pain and sacrifice is there. I have not seen some of family for a year or 2 now, and it hurts.

I have not lost everyone. Lost a best friend when she turned into a mask nazi.

I have another family member in the hospital right now from unknown jab issues. So far, 4 in and out of hospital that I know of with hearts attacks, blood clots, water on the heart, and this last one I will find out later after testing what is going on. So far, no one died, so this is better than some patriots who lost family (God Bless them).

So we are all in this misfit family mess together.

Some days I feel like I am from the land of the Misfit Toys, hiding from the Abominable Snowman...

Its impossible to be HAPPY or content
while EVERYONE's eyes ARE
being OPENED to VERY ugly plans
& snares crafted over time,
w/ MALICE.
You are correct that MANY of us
LOVE & ADMIRE,
(have even parented)
VERY stubborn INDIVIDUALS,
who "learn best by doing"
(Jacob, ultimately the🇮🇱Patriarch, had❌FRIENDS p "controling" situations the WAYS he & fam.thought "smart". Genesis 25:24 thru Gen.50.
The "meaty middle":
Gen.32:17-31, he's wrestling w/ an unseen being ALL night, p➡️ his wives & kids,ALL his wealth, ahead to appease the bro he'd CHEATED, but after yrs of being cheated, was in NEED of favor he couldn't imagine.

Jesus said (Sermon on the Mount, Matt.5-7) we are able to be BLESSED when we mourn.
HE directed to us🙏🏽wrt EVERY SINGLE 1 of peeps we miss/ worry wrt/are in conflict with.
SERIOUS STUFF: throw your BURDENS⬇️daily @ HIS beautiful feet
Our DEAR ONES walking fearsome paths wrestle, too. GOD says "IS ANYTHING TOO HARD for the LORD?" Gen.18:14

🙏Yes, agree 100%
I pray about it every day. God sees all. God listens to our prayers.

Its said "Prayer changes things";
INCLUDING perspectives
AND people ☺️.
Go THERE to QUASH anxiety😉.*
It has for me broached ⬆️coming "TRIALS"
& Scripture suggests our ATTACHMENT to
OUR FAITHFUL CREATOR➡️a perimeter
against forces we may❌uunderstand.

I like privately saying the words of the LORD's prayer
OUT LOUD, SLOWLY,
PAUSING @ any point I sense ANGER, YEARNING, OR the
temptation to SPEED⬆️or QUIT🙏🏽ing;
INSTEAD I've learned its FINE too be BLUNT, & then lay ALL burdens HIS feet.
Peace/healing/power come organically
from BEING w/HIM, our face "unveiled".***

I find the NEED to reach deep into times past
& come⬆️from my knees singing old praise songs, w/rebuilt shoulder now LOOSE ENOUGH to stretch out my whole upper half toward Heaven, like a "swan dive" facing".
Music& thinking goes on quite awhile & the hound dog's liking it,
whereas she INTERRUPTS me fooling w/ this phone p ~45 min.🙄😁.

* Phil.4:6-7
** 2 Kings 6:11-19
*** John 15-17, 2

2 Corinthians 3:17-18
"Now the LORD is the Spirit,
& where the Spirit of the LORD IS,
THERE is FREEDOM.
And WE, who w/ unveiled faces
(contemplate &) reflect the
LORD's glory, are being transformed
into HIS likeness w/ever increasing glory,
which comes from the LORD,
who is the Spirit."