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This is part of an ongoing series during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. To engage further in the #QuarantineSoulCare<\/strong> series, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n

For almost a month, I sat with Jeremiah, who sat with God. I let him do the talking. I read the same passage out of the third chapter of Lamentations every morning, until I almost knew it by heart.<\/p>\n

You seem to me a bear lying in wait, ready to get me. You have walled me in, and I am trapped. You\u2019ve made my chains heavy. My endurance is near gone\u2014and so is my hope.
\n–Lamentations 3:10-11, author\u2019s paraphrase<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His words mirror what we think in our worst moments of pain and distortion\u2014when it feels like we\u2019ve been left by the side of the road somewhere and nothing good will ever happen again. \u2026 He was wrestling with his distortions of God\u2014with God. The living God was not striking him dead, or sending him away in shame, but holding him close until he could see reality again. \u2026
\nWhen Jeremiah has spent himself, he stops and breathes deep the air of mercy. Oh, yes, I can almost imagine him saying to himself, I remember.<\/p>\n

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
\nhis mercies never come to an end;
\nthey are new every morning;
\ngreat is your faithfulness.
\n–Lamentations 3:22-23<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of the most loved words of Scripture are Jeremiah\u2019s. They are the words of a man who was in an awful place and washed up on the shore of trust, who was anchored once again by remembering that the Lord is especially good to those who wait for him.<\/p>\n

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GOD is good to one and all;
\neverything he does is suffused with grace.
\n–Psalm 145:9, The Message<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMay today you breathe deep the air of mercy and experience a new mercy for the day. <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n

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Today’s reading was taken from\u00a0And Yet, Undaunted<\/em><\/a> by Paula Rinehart<\/a> and Connally Gilliam<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

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