7/20/09 Brokenhearted

"The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah:
In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.
They said to me, "Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire." When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven." -Nehemiah 1:1-4

Weep. Weep for the brokenness, for the injustice. Weep for children without adequate schools. Weep for the oppressed. Weep for those who are demeaned for the color of their skin. Weep for the joy of children who have nothing but Christ and the depression of those who have everything but him. Weep for children who have no family but the gangs. Weep for the gangs that destroy their lives and their children's lives. Weep for children who have never known childhood. Weep for young people who have high expectations of being dead or in jail by the time they are my age. Weep for those who have blood on their hands. Weep for the abused. Weep for the abusers. Weep for the addicts. Weep for those who deny their addiction. Weep for the homeless. Weep for those who deny a destitute mother shelter in winter. Weep for the prostitutes. Weep for the hatred and the division by the train tracks. Weep for those who have no hope. Weep for dying neighborhoods. Weep for corruption. Weep for people who try to get their lives together but have to sell drugs to feed their children. Weep for people who have been behind bars most of their life. Weep for the falsely convicted. Weep for the mistrust , the cynicism, the bitterness. Weep for fathers that cannot feed their families no mattter how hard they try. Weep for children who bear children. Weep for youth that see that an education will get them nowhere. Weep for the neighborhood where two of the biggest health problems are starvation and obesity. Weep for the supremisists. Weep for the devaluing of relationships in pursuit of political correctness. Weep for graduates who have no future. Weep for those who cannot see the brokenness. Weep for the 150 gangs in chicago. Weep for the hypocrits. Weep for a church that sends hundreds of teens on mission trips to Mexico but discriminates against Mexicans in it's own community. Weep for the indifference . Weep for the assaulted. Weep for their attackers. Weep for the fear. Weep for the inequality. Weep for the lies. Weep for the lives destroyed. Weep for a church that holds on to its money with an iron fist. Weep for the ignorant. Weep for battles not fought. Weep for the spirits of greed and destruction. Weep for our deafness. Weep for our complacency. Weep for the need right in front of us. Weep for America.