1 Maccabees 2:15-29 / Luke 19:41-44
It is often said that accidents will happen and they do happen.
But accidents don't usually happen all of a sudden or just happen by chance.
Usually there will be warning signs before an accident happens.
So it is with tragedies and disasters. They just don't happen suddenly or by chance.
There will always be warning signs of an impending tragedy or disaster.
When attention is paid to those signs and acted up, then the damage can be lessened or even averted.
But more often than not, those signs are ignored and brushed off, and then after the terrible consequences, the blame game takes place.
In the gospel, we heard of that moving moment when Jesus shed tears over Jerusalem and He said this, "If you in your turn had only understood on the this day the message of peace!"
God speaks to us in the signs and the voices of the people around us.
When we sense what needs to be done, let us do what is right and good and loving.
Then we won't cry tears of sadness. Instead we give thanks with tears of joy.