The texture of today’s news—cycles of violence resuming hours after hopeful announcements, vulnerable populations abandoned by institutions meant to protect them, families so desperate they risk disease to reclaim their loved ones—invites us into the posture of Jeremiah, who did not look away from suffering but held it close enough to speak its name. Yet even in that darkest book of scripture, the prophet finds the courage to remember that mercy is not exhausted, that each dawn offers a fresh possibility of compassion. To acknowledge the depth of what breaks today is not to despair but to prepare our hearts to recognize, and perhaps offer, the small mercies that remain within our reach.