Impatient with God? Fearful about life?
"How long, O LORD?
"I cry for help
but you do not listen!
"I cry out to you, 'Violence!'
but you do not intervene.
"Why do you let me see ruin;
why must I look at misery?
"Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and clamorous discord.
"Then the LORD answered me and said:
Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets,
so that one can read it readily.
"For the vision still has its time,
presses on to fulfillment,
and will not disappoint;
if it delays, wait for it,
it will surely come,
it will not be late.
"The rash one has no integrity;
but the just one,
because of his faith,
shall live."
(today's first reading - Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4)
"I cry for help
but you do not listen!
"I cry out to you, 'Violence!'
but you do not intervene.
"Why do you let me see ruin;
why must I look at misery?
"Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and clamorous discord.
"Then the LORD answered me and said:
Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets,
so that one can read it readily.
"For the vision still has its time,
presses on to fulfillment,
and will not disappoint;
if it delays, wait for it,
it will surely come,
it will not be late.
"The rash one has no integrity;
but the just one,
because of his faith,
shall live."
(today's first reading - Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4)
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