The walk of shame
Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away. Her filthiness clung to her skirts;...
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How has it come to this?
How? How has it come to this? This is the main theme in the first poem of Lamentations. The people are in shock. Wandering around in the rubble of what was once the glorious...
I wailed once
I wailed once. Just once. You see, I was a happy, smiley, bouncy baby. A contented child. A teenager who’d been brought up to believe that feelings could not be trusted and therefore could...
Learning to lament
Everyone experiences loss. That much is clear. But how each one of us expresses loss is different. It’s a cultural thing. We are taught how to deal with loss by our parents, our friends,...
Lamentations
Lamentations. Not a word we really use in the Western world today. Lamentations: noun 1. acts of lamenting or expressing grief. 2. Lamentations, (used with a singular verb) a book of the Bible, traditionally...
Trust in the only one who can be trusted
And Jerusalem fell. Exactly as God had told Jeremiah it would fall. In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his...
Just keep speaking out…
Warning to Zedekiah, King of Judah: This is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down. You will...
The restoration business
The siege is on. The king of Babylon is besieging Jerusalem. And King Zedekiah is holding Jeremiah under guard in the royal palace of Judah. It isn’t looking good for Jeremiah at all. And...
Are you a carpenter or a gardener when it comes to your kids?
OK, so I have five children. The oldest is now 24, the youngest 13. But never imagine for one moment that that makes me an expert. Far from it. I was reflecting with a...
He is already there
There’s always one, isn’t there? One who’s on a mission to bring you down. One who’s spreading lies about you. Maybe they’re jealous or a mischief maker or simply bored. Maybe they just don’t...
