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.
August 8, 2021: Shift Happens - Bekah Stewart
August 1, 2021: I Am Your Shield - Amanda Lum
July 25, 2021: A Life Entrusted - Landon Lynch
July 18, 2021: Remember Who You Are - Ryan Taylor
July 11, 2021: Be With Us – Kristin Wright
July 4, 2021: Good Grief - Michael Hidalgo
June 27, 2021: Burning Like a Furnace – Michael Hidalgo
June 20, 2021– Remembering Rightly – Bekah Stewart
June 13, 2021: Build My House –Michael Hidalgo
June 6, 2021: Rooftops, Stars, Clothing and Thresholds - Michael Hidalgo
May 30, 2021: I've Heard of You – Jon Gettings
May 23, 2021: This is Not Comforting - Michael Hidalgo
May 16, 2021: Walk This Way –Dave Neuhausel
May 9, 2021: And Now for the 6th Act! – Michael Hidalgo
May 2, 2021: Scott Oppliger - That's Not How You Treat Family
April 25, 2021: Tov! – Michael Hidalgo
April 18, 2021: Bugs, Wrestlers and Faces – Bekah Stewart
April 11, 2021: About a Homer for Gomer – Michael Hidalgo
Apri 4, 2021: This isNot Resuscitation – Amanda Lum
March 28, 2021: It is Finished – Michael Hidalgo
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