In Lamenting, Surrender
God, please listen as a Father listens to his daughter. Don’t leave me feeling yet again utterly alone and unheard. I have committed my life to live in relationship with you and for years I grew closer and closer to you. You were my everything. I poured my heart out to you and you responded. […]
Much of Praying is Grieving
I watched my daughters through the lens of my camera as they stared at the deep hole where their friend’s body had just been lowered. A young boy from our church had passed away suddenly, and our little community was hurting. I was grateful to have been tasked as photographer – a little distance for […]
A Lament
I began learning about lament a few years ago when I found myself thinking and feeling things that stood in opposition to what I knew to be true of God. My reality and God’s Word contradicted one another and I didn’t know what to do with that. Saying what I was thinking and feeling out […]
A Liturgy for Seasons of Lament
My soul is downcast O Lord And the weight of lament Is heavy in my bones I long to be free of it- To cast my sorrow off Like a dirty garment- And yet, I sense you here in the sorrow Not leading me out of it But walking me through it For there is […]
This Week’s Theme: Lament
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun says that to lament is “to take my complaints, anger, sufferings, frustrations and heartaches to God.” (The Spiritual Disciplines Handbook) And he meets us there. We realize that following up a whole week celebrating our birthday with the topic of lament might seem strange. But that’s life, isn’t it? Things don’t always […]