Lamentations speaks not in resolution but in witnessed suffering—it invites us to look, truly look, at sorrow without turning away. Today the news carries the voices of those crushed by violence, drowned by floods, hunted by persecution, and undone by illness and accident. The instinct to find meaning or lessons can sometimes become a way of not seeing. What if, instead, we sat with the reality of so much pain, in so many places, happening at once? The ancient cry of Lamentations was written by those who had no answers, only the courage to name what was unbearable. That naming itself—that refusal to look away—may be where mercy begins.