On a day devoted to remembering those lost a quarter-century ago, we encounter a news cycle that speaks to the fragility of life and the persistence of harm—conflict, corruption, injustice, environmental loss. Yet the verse from Lamentations, written in the midst of destruction, offers not denial but a profound truth: that survival itself, each morning’s continuation, is an act of mercy. Those who lived through that day and those who remember it, those laboring to protect the vulnerable and end suffering, those mourning ongoing loss—all find themselves held by a faithfulness that does not depend on the world’s steadiness but on a constancy beyond it. The question is not why suffering persists, but whether we can meet each new day with gratitude for the chance to bear witness, to grieve, and to work toward healing.