As a community we can have moments where we suffer together. This can be because something tragic has happened, because there is a sense of worry, because something has changed, or any number of other possibilities. When this happens there can be a number of responses we make with everything from wanting to be seen, to wanting to get angry.

Our scripture for this week (Lamentation 2:20-22) shows us one way a group has lamented or cried out to God because of suffering. In this case they (in one voice) name exactly what is going on and ask God to pay attention. They really have one simple request for God, "Look!" Lamentations seems to say that when there is suffering like this, something about naming the suffering and asking others to notice is important. So this week, we ask God and others to, Look at Us.

Lamentations 2:20-22 (NRSV):
Look, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have you done this?
Should women eat their offspring,
the children they have borne?
Should priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
The young and the old are lying
on the ground in the streets;
my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
in the day of your anger you have killed them,
slaughtering without mercy.
You invited my enemies from all around
as if for a day of festival;
and on the day of the anger of the Lord
no one escaped or survived;
those whom I bore and reared
my enemy has destroyed.