Yesu's Monsoon Garden

The Book of Lamentations

Introduction

You're looking for Jeremiah? Come, look out the window. That's him. That's him walking through the rubble. Shoulders stooped, step slow.

He's a tired man. I knew him when he was young.

But that was long ago.

That was before the walls fell.

That was before the enemy came.

Look at him sort through the stones. He does this all day. He'll spot a dish that once stood on a table or a sandal once worn by a child. Each item he clutches, not to keep but to mourn. He'll hold the plate to his chest and fall on his knees and wail. Sobbing erupts like a cloudbursts. He'll stay there and weep until he has mourned the memory of the object, and then he'll place it back on the pile and move on.

Soon he sees another item, and the weeping starts again.

Some people think he's crazy. Some people think he has lost what little sense he had.

I don't. I don't think him insane. After all, didn't he tell us this would happen? No, he's not crazy. He's just sad.

I told him the other day. I said, "Jeremiah write these things down. These feelings you have. This sorrow that you feel--write it down."

He looked at me from under those bushy eyebrows and said, "Maybe your right . . .maybe you're right. I just don't want the people to forget."

I told him to write it down. I hope he will. '

The Devotional Bible - Experiencing the Heart of Jesus, Max Lucado General Editor, Thomas Nelson Publishers, New Century Version.

Yesu Garden

Last week, I stumbled across a blog titled Yesu Garden written by Amrita who lives in India. On September 1st the end of her post about Internet Addiction Disordered she wrotet this:

I read on someone 's blog that in the West

people don 't have locks on their car gas tank caps.

I was really shocked to hear that.

Here everybody locks their gas tank caps.
We locked ours and yet a guy was stealing petrol from
our car by crawling under the chassis and siphoning it.

My Dad got the tank reinforced.
And leaving garden ornaments outside, that 's another story too.

In a drought stricken village in Gujarat,
only one well has a little water left in it.

So they are now locking the well
to make sure everyone get
their equally rationed H2O

And she is correct! Here in the United States we don't have to worry about putting locks on our gas tanks. Sometimes I look at life through rose color glasses and I tend to forget that circumstances and the annual salary for most families worldwide is actually less than $400 to $350 a year! Amrita's post was a humbling reminder of just how spiritually blessed I am.

Her post today was titled "Monsoon Garden" and she's writing about how a rain storm and strong winds tore down the brick garden wall around her Christian Church. In this post she was asking for prayers and funds to repair the garden wall. Nature teaches us that from struggle we learn to develop strength to soar to new heights.

Today let's think about circumstances and people that might challenge our standards? And if you have time would you please offer our dear sweet sister-in-Christ your prayers and sweet words of encouragement? I have a warm feeling that you beloved might make a brand new friend along the way.

Charlotte, your sister in Christ

Monsoon Garden

posted by Amrita at Yesu Garden - 1 hour ago

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

In the past few days we 've had incessant rain together with strong winds. This knocked down an 80 feet section of our church wall in 3 places. Parts of this wall is very old. And t...