Main news for 10 May 2026

In today's reading from the book of the prophet Jeremiah, the Lord says that He will gather His people, but from His words one can conclude that He Himself also scattered them. Here one can picture this: the people of God are like a handful of grains in His palms. These grains quarrel among themselves and loudly declare that they do not want to lie in the handful and in general know for themselves what they should do and how to live. And the Lord opens His palms, and the grains scatter over the earth.

But since God did not plant them, but precisely let them go, they are lying on stones, where they cannot sprout at all. And when the disobedient grains understand that they seem to have received the "freedom" they themselves wanted, but in fact are simply lost and terribly alone, then the Lord gathers them back into His hands to plant them where He had intended to plant them. And now, having learned all the "joys" of false freedom, they accept His help with gratitude. Something similar happens with each of us...