Lamentations

Long ago, I thumbed through the Bible, foreign territory to me then. I came to the book called Lamentations. I read a few verses and set the Bible aside. Too depressing. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, invited to a Bible study, they were reading Lamentations. Lamentations begins with the anguished cry of the Daughter of Zion. Jerusalem lies desolate, the people are exiled, all is lost. This year, Lamentations is my Lenten discipline. In the no-man’s-land of Lamentations, with the Daughter of Zion, I pray and wait.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh