Israel just entered a three week period of mourning known as Tammuz. Many of their great tragedies have happened during this season. Tammuz mourns the brokenness and evil present in this world and longs for the day when good will overcome evil and Tammuz will shift from mourning to rejoicing.

I mourn for the anguish all across the Middle East. I am not a foreign policy expert, but I am a human. And I anguish over the suffering among the Jews and Arabs, and long for the day when peace will blanket the region. May both sides find wisdom in the midst of this darkening calamity.