some scattered thinking

Every time I hear about the crisis in Haiti I can't help but to think back to the book of Lamentations. Its one of my most favorite books in the Bible. I'm not really sure why I love it so much, but I guess I just really appreciate how penetrating and profound the distress that God's anger brings in the beginning is and then how it is later met so contrastingly yet so intimately with Hope, because of God's faithfulness.

Also, I just wanted to add that I just realized how patient the Jewish people must have had to be. When reading the Bible, I always forget how different those times were than they are now. (like the fact that i just read about it being a freaking 4 month walk to get from this one city to another. I would have died.) It also blows my mind that stories are told off of multiple generations having to experience the same "season" before any sort of change happens. It almost doesn't seem fair to those people belonging to the passing generations that don't necessarily get to see the works begin or end, but instead spend their lives paying for the faults of the generations before. You'd think with a new generation, God would just give a new start, but it does not work like that. I wonder if I am part of one of those generations? I wonder if I am part of a generation who sees change? Maybe it is both. Either way, it is true that God works on timelines of all sorts of lengths and sometimes he chooses to use history in order to teach us the great magnitude of his lessons.

and also, i take it back. i cant really label israel as patient. however, they were probably more patient than me.