Day 4095 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.
Lamentations 3:17 NIV What is depravation? Is it to be deprived of something in life, of life itself perhaps? It is the missing of something, misplacing of something? Is it the seeing all that another has and holding only in that a list of all we don’t? Is it this insistence upon housing our hope inside all things held either in the hand or heart of those with whom we share this hole? Is it the relative wholeness witnessed within the walk of another, a comparative lack then seen inside our own? Is it to go without, to never know, to never feel, to always wonder what it might be like to be like another? Is it the life of a drifter who’s sometimes unhappy that they’ve chosen a life without a home? Is it understanding the idea of home, and that of hope, and realizing that no matter what we might try our trying still to find either where we are is but as wasted an effort as any might try and that toward anything at all? Of all we have, of all we’ve seen, of every story we’ve lived and all ...