Staying put is a message we don't usually want to hear. We are accustomed to getting up and going as we please. We call it freedom in that we don't have to answer to anyone about our whereabouts. We are free to be. We take our freedom as a God given right, something that our ancestors died for. Free to defy laws and mandates, especially if it infringes on our rights. But I wonder do we really know what our ancestors died for? Perhaps it wasn't quite the freedom that we imagine today. Jeremiah was asked to pray for the remnant of people left behind from the Babylonian conquerors. These were the poorest of people, not worthy of being taken captive to Babylon. They were survivors of horrors, their city ransacked and destroyed, their recently appointed leader murdered, along with 80 other men. Those corpses just cast aside into a cistern to further contaminate any drinking water. These people had nothing to claim for th...