Daily Lesson for December 11, 2019

Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Matthew chapter 2 verses 16 through 18:

16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
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“A voice is heard in Ramah,
    weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children
    and refusing to be comforted,
    because they are no more.”


Sorrow, anger
A madness of inconsolable grief
Gathering like lightning
Rachel is weeping
Rachel is raging
She feels like her guts
Have been torn
From her womb
And her breath
A fire
She can neither catch
Nor control
Do not touch her
Do not even go near her
Do not say, “There were mistakes.”
Or, “God has a plan.”
Or, “God needed another angel.”
Who’s God?

We can say, “Sorry.”
Sorry is a drop in the ocean of sorrow
But we can say it
And we can say her children’s names
We must say Rachel and her children’s names
And not forget them