Hard going

A dull damp overcast day, such a contrast to the weekend just past. Housekeeping chores after breakfast, then making the video slide show for next week's Morning Prayer and uploading it to YouTube. I cooked a veggie chickpea dish with rice for Clare, and added cooked chicken pieces with tomato paste for myself.  

Although I had a decent night's sleep I felt slightly under the weather, as if I was having a second reaction to last Friday's covid jab - physical activity seemed to be an effort, and I felt slightly faint on times. It's as if my blood pressure was a bit low and the medication I'm taking was making it lower still. It was even worse just before lunch when my blood sugar level is low anyway. It's not the first time this has occurred, but it's not frequent. I wonder if cumulative tiredness has something to do with it. 

When I went out for a walk, aiming to cover my daily distance in daylight, I found it hard going so it took me longer than usual to do a circuit of Llandaff Fields and Thompson's Park. After supper I found myself a new sound recording app for the Chromebook which will also run on my phone. It's nice and simple to use and unlike the phone app I had before, the accompanying ads on the free to use version, don't display in such a way as to distract one's attention when using it, or obscure enough of the control button to make it hard to use.

Since Israel eliminated the key leaders of Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli war machine has turned its attention to the key leaders of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and its military infrastructure in South Lebanon. Hundreds of civilians have been killed there and residential buildings destroyed, adding to the 43,000 killed in Gaza, where so little aid has been allowed to enter that hundreds of thousands are reduced to a state of famine  and at risk of dying of disease if not malnutrition. 

In addition, an Israeli missile attack on Iran has crippled a key sector of its armaments production capacity in retaliation for an attack that rained nearly 200 missiles on Israel. 182 resident media workers reporting from inside the war zone are reported to have been killed in this year long conflict, and no reporters are allowed into the war zone. Israel has demonstrated its military power and cruel ruthlessness in wielding it, without regard for how it is regarded internationally. 

War crimes have been committed, but will there ever be accountability or justice for the multitude of victims, who have suffered not just in the past thirteen months, but down the generations since the foundation of the state of Israel? Scripture says yes there will, but it seems nobody in power takes seriously any more the verdict of divine judgement down through centuries of history. It's heart breaking.