A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.” Jeremiah 31:15
in the communities reduced to rubble
in the hospitals without supplies
at the crossings where names are forgotten,
Ramah’s voice cries out.
not only every mother, but
every father, every sibling,
every heart which has shattered
and every soul cradling hope
is named Rachel.
yet,
there in the ashes is the God
who gathers tears into scarred hands
which, even now, are drafting
the plans for restoration,
which even now are drawing
weeping children into love’s embrace,
whispering that someday from grief
will rise grace like a phoenix.
so may we weep
not as those who have no hope
but as those who,
because of God,
never lose hope.
(c) 2025 Thom M. Shuman
Venmo: @Thom-Shuman
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