Jerusalem is destroyed, flattened. It’s in habitants hauled away into exile. The city is “shamed by her destruction.” How do you even begin to speak about this? An impossible situation in which it seems no one cares and there is no one to listen - not even the Divine? In this elegy, the poet uses the picture of a woman - a widow who is alone. Saying things like, “there is no one to comfort her” and the widow saying, “No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit.” And the isolation only seems to grow. Because Jerusalem is destroyed no pilgrims come to celebrate the feasts, “The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals.”
This is perhaps the hardest, most intense of the five poems. It finishes without hope, only a request; without light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, only a hope for some sort of revenge. What do we do in these kind of moments? We cry out. We lament. We lay it all out there, even if we are not wholly sure God is listening.
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December 19, 2021: Sit At My Right Hand - Michael Hidalgo
December 12, 2021: A Story of the Gods - Michael Hidalgo
December 5, 2021: Quid Pro Quo - Bekah Stewart
November 28, 2021: These Belong to You - Michael Hidalgo
November 21, 2021: Look On The Inside - Michael Hidalgo
November 14, 2021: No Ear, No Job - Amanda Lum
November 7, 2021: The One About Selling Everything - Maggie Knight
October 31, 2021 - Less is the New More - Michael Hidalgo
October 24, 2021: On Not Getting It Sorted - Bekah Stewart
October 17, 2021: What Are You Talking About? - Michael Hidalgo
October 10, 2021: A Sacred Presence - Michael Hidalgo
October 3, 2021: There Are Only Participants - Michael Hidalgo
September 26, 2021: This is For Everyone - Michael Hidalgo
September 19, 2021: No One Said It Would Be Easy - Dave Neuhausel
September 12, 2021: Are You Actually Happy? - Michael Hidalgo
September 5, 2021: What Do YOU Mean? - Amanda Lum
August 29, 2021: Setting Forth - Michael Hidalgo
August 15, 2021: With Jesus - Kay Morrison
August 8, 2021: Shift Happens - Bekah Stewart
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