My days pass away like a shadow, and I wither like the grass.
But you, O Lord, endure forever, and your name from age to age.
You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to have mercy upon Jerusalem;
indeed, the appointed time has come.
For your servants love the city’s very rubble, and are moved to pity even for its dust.
You will look with favor on the prayer of the homeless; you will not despise their plea.
Let this be written for a future generation, so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord.
—Psalm 102.11-14, 17-18 (Evangelical Lutheran Worship)—
There’s a truth known by those of us who’ve grown up in the age of the internet: “Don’t read the comments.” The many benefits provided to us by the heightened connectivity of modern living come with the same problems shared by every age humanity has ever known: what exists can be used for sinful purposes, and likely will be as quickly as we can imagine.