There is a kind of cruelty in broken promises, and today’s news carries the weight of that rupture. A program that worked—that gave malnourished children a second chance through accessible nutrition—has faltered because the resources sustaining it have withdrawn. Elsewhere, those fleeing environmental devastation find doors closing rather than opening. The prophet’s call to “relieve the oppressed” assumes a kind of persistent attentiveness, a refusal to look away once need is known. What does it mean to “learn to do well” when the machinery of care, once working, grinds to a halt? Perhaps it means sitting with the dissonance between what we know works and what we allow to fail—and letting that tension move us toward restoration rather than away from it.