From today’s reading...
‘Come on,’ they said, ‘let us concoct a plot against Jeremiah, for the Law will not perish for lack of priests, nor advice for lack of wise men, nor the word for lack of prophets. Come on, let us slander him and pay no attention to anything he says.’” Jeremiah 18:18
You have to be quite privileged to be so naive as to be taken by surprise when some jackleg comes gunning for you for no apparent reason.
If you are prone to bouts of confusion, depression, and dread when you see or experience these types of attacks, go read the fable of “The Scorpion and the Frog.”
We are fallen creatures, and many are happy to double down on their fallen states as they live lives of caveat emptor and carpe diem.
Because there are evil people out there is all the more reason you must remain diligent as you...
Stay the course.
Keep the faith.
Endure.
Market like you mean it. Now go sell something.