Grief and Lament: Tools for Life

Almost a third of the one hundred and fifty psalms in the Bible are lament psalms, and up to 70% of the psalms contain some lament. Lament is woven throughout the Bible, and suffering and grief are intertwined with the story of the gospel; perhaps because that’s more reflective of the realities of life. Justin Fung walks us through Psalm 13, and how God longs to transform our pain and grief through lament. [Psalm 13] Resources Response music: Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei (After “Adagio for Strings, op.11a”) The Healing Time, by Pesha Joyce Gertler Finally on my way to yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the untended wounds the red and purple scars those hieroglyphs of pain carved into my skin, my bones, those coded messages that send me down the wrong street again and again where I find them the old wounds the old misdirections and I lift them one by one close to my heart and I say holy, holy.