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Why do you let me see ruin?  Why must I look at misery?  Destruction and violence are before me.  Lord! I cry out for help, why do you not intervene? Those words of the prophet Habakkuk millennia ago could be words on our lips today.  In fact, the problem of suffering and pain is one of primary things the new atheists point at to argue against the existence of a good and loving God.   Sometimes the silence of God is deafening especially when we feel ourselves crumbling under the weight of our labors and burdens.  And I think it is so critical that the Scriptures give voice to the reality of this pain, confusion, anguish and discouragement not only at our personal pain but at the seemingly endless news cycle of violence, the ongoing misery of things like homelessness, the destruction of lives of the unborn, of people of color through incarceration, of the youth through bullying, suicide, etc. The truth is that most of the misery and destruction we see including of our common home (the earth) is a result of human choices.