Gaza after the rubble

Lament

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.” When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” Jesus wept. The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”

John 11:32–36 · World English Bible

Before any argument about causes, there is a grave. Jesus weeps at a grave. If your first word about this place is a defense of a side, you have already left the body behind.

What would it mean to mourn this without recruiting the dead?

Hope

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Romans 8:22–25 · World English Bible

The groaning is not a problem to be solved in a thread. Paul lets creation groan and still talks about hope. Hope that cannot sit with rubble is just impatience in religious clothes.

Where has hope in you become a way to skip other people’s ruins?