Unless you’re living under a rock these days, you have surely seen news coverage of the violence and devastation occuring in several major cities in the United States. Emotions are high and its difficult to make sense of all that is happening.

I think the measure of enough is hard to find in this haze, but I know that it is there. It is always there, lurking between too little and way too much. When are the protests enough to get their point across? What actions should the authorities take, what would be enough? What actions are too little and what are too much? When did the peaceful protests of the Martin Luther King, Jr. era become too little? Where on the spectrum is looting and burning the businesses that many innocent people worked their lives to build?

What is enough change? How will enough healing occur? When will there be enough listening to truly hear? When will the violence be enough for productive change, but not so much that it irreparably hurts a noble cause?

Tonight, my heart cries “enough, please, enough!”