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“When Jesus came in sight of the Jerusalem, he wept over it and said, ‘If only you had known this day the way that leads to peace! But it is hidden from your sight.'”Luke 19:41-42

Not much has changed in the two thousand years since Jesus wept over Jerusalem.     The way of peace is still lacking.   There is little evidence humanity has matured.     And while Jerusalem lives with heartache and anger  over the attack by Hamas . . .  Fifty miles away,  people in Gaza, daily bury their children.

For the children just keep dying.  One.  After.  Another.

I probably read too many news stories coming out of Israel, Gaza, and the West bank. Stories that can break a heart

Anywhere from 10,000 to 12,000 children have died in Gaza, since the war started on October 7. Thousands of other children have lost an arm or a leg, forever changing the projectory of their lives. Today, children are starving.

The devastation in Gaza makes my heart hurt. Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel set loose the barrage of vengeance by Israel. There are no innocents masterminding this war.

How God must weep for those precious, dead, and broken children . . . At hardened hearts, unwilling to seek peace with justice . . . A way of compassion instead of hate.  

How God must Weep,  that we have yet to find a way of peace, instead of war.