New Every Morning
A line from Lamentations holds steady where the day does not.
"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." These words come from Lamentations 3:22-23.
The book is a set of poems written in grief, after a city fell and much was lost. That is worth knowing. The line is not spoken from comfort. It is spoken from the far side of ruin, by someone who has counted the cost and still looks up.
Notice the small word "morning." The mercy is not stored once and rationed out. It arrives again at each sunrise, fresh, unearned, equal to the day it meets.
If you are tired, start there. You do not need to feel faithful to say that God is. The verse puts the weight on his constancy, not on yours. Read it once more, slowly. Then begin the day you have, not the one you planned.
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