You Are Held in the Waiting

Here's something wild — Lamentations, the most grief-soaked book in the Bible, is where we find one of the most hopeful verses ever written. The author wasn't having a good day. Or a good season. And yet, right in the middle of the mess, he looked up and said: His mercies are new every morning. Mom, that means yesterday's lost temper doesn't follow you into today. The permission slip you forgot, the dinner that came from a box, the moment you locked yourself in the bathroom just to breathe — none of that canceled God's compassion for you. This morning is genuinely, actually new. Not because you've earned a reset, but because that's just who He is. You don't have to perform your way into grace today. You just have to wake up — which, honestly, given how little sleep you got, is already impressive. His faithfulness showed up before your coffee did. That's worth holding onto.