Tiny Thots: Lamenting | 10.30.10
From God on Mute, by Pete Greig (Regal Books, 2007), p 85 Lamenting is more than a technique for venting emotion. It is one of the fruits of a deepening spiritual life that hs learned to stand naked before God without shame or pretence. In fact long before Gethsemane, Jesus Himself had pronounced that those who mourn are blessed (see Matt 5:4)? “Implicit in this statement notes Walter Brueggermann “is that those who do not mourn will not be comforted and those who do not face the endings will not receive the beginnings.” Honest lament can express a vibrant faith; one that has learned to embrace life’s hardships as well its joy and to lift everything — everything — to the Father in prayers. As the author Richard Foster says of the lament psalms, “They give us permission to shake our fist at God one moment and break into doxology the next.”
Walter Brueggermann quoted from The Prophetic Imagination, Fortress Press, 2001, p 57
Richard Foster quoted from Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, Harper-San Francisco 1992, p 24.
Walter Brueggermann quoted from The Prophetic Imagination, Fortress Press, 2001, p 57
Richard Foster quoted from Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, Harper-San Francisco 1992, p 24.
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