In this epilogue to Choosing the Unknown, we arrive at the breach: Babylon breaks through Jerusalem’s northern wall, and the city collapses. Amid fire and exile, Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch remain—two voices carrying words that kings tried to silence, scrolls that fire could not destroy.

This is a story of loss, survival, and endurance: of a prophet spared but exiled, a scribe who chose to stay, and a message that endured through centuries to sit at the heart of scripture today. Woven through their story is a parallel from the ultrarunning world: the runner and the pacer, a partnership of resilience where one voice leads and another ensures it endures.

As Choosing the Unknown closes, we ask what remains after everything falls away—and who helps us keep going when we can’t go alone.

Next time, we begin a new series: If Only—stories where history pivots on a moment, and we are left to wonder what might have been.

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