New Every Morning
A line from Lamentations offers a way to begin again, no matter how the night has gone.
The book of Lamentations is a set of poems written in grief. Much of it is hard. In the middle of it, almost without warning, comes this:
"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:22–23, NIV)
Notice where the words are placed. They do not arrive after the trouble is over. They sit inside it. The writer is not pretending the sorrow away. He is saying that something steady holds underneath it.
The claim is about supply, not mood. Mercy is described as renewed each day, the way bread was once gathered each morning and could not be stored. You are not asked to carry tomorrow's portion today. You are asked only to receive what this morning holds.
That is worth sitting with when you wake tired. The day may be the same day, with the same weight in it. But the mercy, the text insists, is new. It has not been used up by yesterday. Whatever this morning asks of you, the promise is that enough is being given for it. Begin there.
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