Crying over here for the pain of what we all went through, and what you rightly named as an absence of safety to grieve. Thank you for writing this (lament is so desperately missing from our churches) and for being Holly's support so she can fulfill her calling as well. Thank you, Holly, for being the love of Jesus personified to those precious people under your care and for living out a calling that costs you greatly. May you experience peace and safety and being held by God as you process and grieve and lament. Lament has become a deeply important part of my life, and something I'd like to encourage and instigate and create space for in the church and beyond. NT Wright talks about how the church has forfeited their role in lamenting. Lament is 1/2 of having an imagination of the world to come. When we lament what is not right in the world, we also tell our culture that we also have a vision for what it should look like.
It's central to what I do everyday as a chaplain... Sit with people in the sorrow of what currently is and fully feel that.... And also the hope and longing for what is coming. When the church abdicates its responsibility to lament, it also misses the opportunity to point to what is coming.
Melodie, my wife, hosts guided lament gatherings.
It’s like she’s a good person who does good things
There is a deep need for lament. But many don’t know how or if they are allowed.
I cried in Texas this last March. Remember that?
Crying over here for the pain of what we all went through, and what you rightly named as an absence of safety to grieve. Thank you for writing this (lament is so desperately missing from our churches) and for being Holly's support so she can fulfill her calling as well. Thank you, Holly, for being the love of Jesus personified to those precious people under your care and for living out a calling that costs you greatly. May you experience peace and safety and being held by God as you process and grieve and lament. Lament has become a deeply important part of my life, and something I'd like to encourage and instigate and create space for in the church and beyond. NT Wright talks about how the church has forfeited their role in lamenting. Lament is 1/2 of having an imagination of the world to come. When we lament what is not right in the world, we also tell our culture that we also have a vision for what it should look like.
Yes! Lament and eschatology is such an important point. We can have joy from the promise, and sorrow because it’s yet to be fulfilled
It's central to what I do everyday as a chaplain... Sit with people in the sorrow of what currently is and fully feel that.... And also the hope and longing for what is coming. When the church abdicates its responsibility to lament, it also misses the opportunity to point to what is coming.