there's more good than bad.

I'd already called in sick today when I heard the news about Boston. I don't remember what my first thought was, but all of a sudden, in addition to my body aching and my throat feeling scratchy, my stomach hurt and my heart felt heavy. I do remember thinking, I'm glad I took a sick day. I just want to stay here, wrapped up in a blanket because I feel like crying and how could I look at my kids when I know something so bad has happened?

As I pulled the covers up, my next thought was, The world is scary and it feels like it's getting worse instead of better and are we ever going to be okay?

And almost before I had even finished thinking that thought, I had another, and if thoughts have volume, this one was even louder than the previous. No! We will be okay because there are way more good people in the world than there are bad!

And I wondered if I was the only one who felt that way. Would people laugh at me if I told them I believed there was more good than bad in the world? Even now, when we hear of rapes and shootings and bombs?

But it turns out I'm not the only one who believes that there's more good than bad because the first thing I read when I could stomach the idea of turning on my computer was this:

And I thought of the quote by Mr. Rogers that I read for the first time after Sandy Hook. It turns out I wasn't the only one because I've seen it shared so many times today:

I hope that you, too, believe there is more good than bad and know there are still so many helpers.

Boston -- and the whole world, really -- I'm thinking of you. xo.

P.S. Runners are out in Boston this morning.