Republished with permission from John Pavlovitz I’ve been trying to place the heaviness within me these days; the nagging sickness that resides in the pit of my stomach every morning, regardless of what I do to try and push it away. It isn’t merely the growing nihilism that comes from realizing how quickly the bedrock of our Republic is dissolving. It isn’t just the black despair from watching the rapid and seemingly inexorable erosion of human …