Survival: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

                Survival

                Under scorching

                heat of famine

                carry the sins

                of ancestors

                face wilderness

                threats daily

                to survive

                pact with slave lords

            

                to beg bread

                meager cups

                crawling with insects

                our daily survival

                at whim of servants

                bored with humanity

                derision their

                conversation.

Psalm 37:37: "Mark the blameless, and behold the upright, for their is posterity for the peaceable."

Reflection: Everywhere: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions 

        1. In what ways do you think we might also carry the sins of our heritage?

        2. What unrelenting desert seasons have marked your life?

        3. How can we break the consequences from continuing on to the next generation? Or can we?

Share: How does the gift of salvation carry us through times of heart and soul famine?

Everywhere: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

Reading: Lamentations 5:6-10: ... "Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand. We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness..".

Everywhere

At first it seems these circumstances are so different from our lives and yet in some ways they are still the same.

Around the world we too get caught up in forms of bondage due to conditions, like a pandemic, and authorities and rulers--some that compromise safety in their aim for power.

We speak our truths at risk of condemnation and can receive broken relationships.

Or we keep silent and find ourselves drifting away from the Lord.

The wilderness is still deep and wide and filled with dangers. Everywhere.

Soul danger. Truth danger. Cost danger. Without You, Lord, everything is nothing.

Please lead us to go where You go Lord. To see daily through Your light and be Your people wherever You guide. Your heart within us throughout all our actions and decisions.

Your thoughts,