There is Power in Lament As You Listen for the Winds of Hope

Sshhh … Do You Hear It?

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O, Spirit, hear my lament and hold my heart in Your Hands.

When you have questions amidst suffering and depravity, the first thing you want is answers. How often have you heard someone who is grieving ask the question, “Why is this happening to me?!” or simply, “Why is this happening?!”

There is a fine line between lamenting and grieving. Lamenting guides you through the process of grief towards the hope of healing.

“Grief disobeys. Grief explodes. In one breath, you may be able to say that God’s got this and all will be well. In the next, you might descend into fatalism. No pretending. Here, you are raw before God, an open wound.”

— Aubrey Sampson

Lamenting fills the gap between your current state of hopelessness and the light at the end of the tunnel — hope-filled grace and love.

Lamenting doesn’t deny that there is suffering. If you’ve read any of the Book of Job, you will read the torment and suffering that Job endures from his friends and wife.

“Let the day on which…