New Every Morning
In the ruins of a fallen city, one poet found a mercy that had not run out.
The book of Lamentations was written over a wrecked Jerusalem. The temple was gone. The people were scattered or dead. The writer does not look away from any of it. For most of the book he names the loss plainly, line after line.
Then, near the middle, the tone turns. Not because the facts change. They do not. Something else holds.
"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).
Notice the timing. The mercy is new every morning. It is not stockpiled. It does not have to last a lifetime at once. It only has to meet the day in front of you.
That is worth sitting with if you are tired. You are not asked to find enough strength for every tomorrow. You are given what the morning brings, and then the next morning brings more.
So today, take the day you have. The compassion for it has already arrived.
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