In the face of earthquakes that shake the earth and diseases that spread beyond borders, in times when the vulnerable report living in fear and international tensions simmer, we are reminded that we inhabit a fractured world where suffering is real and often sudden. Yet the prophet writing in the darkness of captivity returns again and again to a single anchor: that mercies are new each morning, that what sustains us is not our own strength or the stability of our circumstances, but a faithfulness that does not depend on the news cycle. To acknowledge this is not to minimize the loss or pain of this day, but to ask whether we might, even now, turn toward the source of mercy that meets us where we are—broken, uncertain, and still held.