Reflections on the way...from Lamentations

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and see our disgrace!
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
                                                                   Lamentations 5: 1-5

Let's pray today for those whose journeys are forced on them- for refugees, for those who have lost their homes and their families, and all that they have worked for.

Lamentations is a book of sorrow, a chorus of pain and disappointment, a search for reasons and blame which gives no answers. As we read the news today, as we look out of the windows of our cars, our offices, our comfortable homes, perhaps this is a book that gives voice to the confusion and hurt of our world.

But you, O Lord, reign for ever; your throne endures to all generations.
Why have you forgotten us completely?
Why have you forsaken us these many days?

Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we might be restored....
                                                                Lamentations 5:19-21