He hated being a celebrity, but he was always in the news.  He longed for a simple life yet his was often complex and confusing.  He was a young and inexperienced speaker, yet he spent his life confronting world leaders.  His name:  Jeremiah. If you check that name out in a dictionary, you’ll find a definition, taken from the life of this seventh century prophet, which tells you that a Jeremiah is “one who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future.”