Lamentations 3:43-45. On seeing the destruction all around him, Jeremiah cries out to God "Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity; thou has wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer may pass through."

It does feel like this sometimes, doesn't it? Like he's wrapped Himself in a cloud of thick anger so that our prayers cannot get through, like He has no pity, and our supplications make no difference. People are being injured and dying so frequently right now, the all-cause death rate continues to climb, even as COVID and the vaccination program die down. Just yesterday I sent out a prayer request for a 37-year-old high school teacher who died from a heart attack, and I heard of a 20-year-old who died of cardiac arrest within 24 hours of a COVID shot. It seems to be getting worse and worse. He seems to be "slaying without pity."

While watching a documentary last night about how the vaccine is not, in fact, safe, I was moved to tears by the suffering of some of the vaccine injured and I really felt like Jeremiah does here - like God is so angry with us that our prayers seem not to matter. But then I thought of abortion and how truly, horribly, evil it is. And what really happens every time a baby is aborted. And how those babies must think that their own mothers have wrapped themselves in a cloud of anger and are slaying them without pity. And how blind the rest of us have been to it for so long. And how we just "tolerate" it as one more issue among many. God, I'm afraid, begs to differ. He has heard the cries of His little ones, He has roused Himself, and He has wrapped Himself in a cloud of righteous anger.

Really, I knew this was coming from the time of my vision of Him reaching into the ground, pulling up a handful of baby skulls, and looking at me penetratingly. That was almost three years ago now. He warned me that this was coming. I just kept hoping (and I keep hoping) that we will learn from our suffering and will change our ways. But we have not. In fact, in many ways we have gotten worse. "Catholic" Democrat politicians have abandoned any pretense of reasonableness or limitations with regard to abortion and are just doubling and tripling down on support for unrestricted access to it. And abortion is just the beginning of the problem. Now we have parents, doctors, and the state mutilating children to try to make them into something different than what God created them to be; we have them "vaccinating" children with a dangerous and unnecessary gene therapy that is clearly harming them. We are sacrificing our children left and right, and God hears their cries.

So God's justice will continue until it has played itself out in accordance with His plan. This doesn't mean that we should stop praying, though. It may seem like it is not making a difference, but it is. It always does.