The news today speaks of suffering that feels both sudden and accumulating—disease outbreaks, accidents, economic strain on caregivers, violence against the defenseless. In such moments, we might wonder where mercy lives. The book of Lamentations was written in the rubble of loss, yet even there the writer clings to a difficult truth: that God’s compassion is vast, even when our circumstances suggest otherwise. This is not a promise that suffering will end quickly, but an invitation to notice, in the midst of crisis, where human compassion still shows up—in those who care despite rising costs, in those who document injustice, in those who refuse to let others suffer alone. Perhaps today’s prayer is simply to see clearly what is broken, and to ask where we might be instruments of the mercy that the world so desperately needs.