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Lament and mourning in the time of darkness
Two stories this morning cause my heart to grieve.
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The Spirit is at work because WE are there
We are called to be people who stand at the place of pain — in the cancer ward, at the asylum-seeker’s court hearing, by the graveyard full of memorials to small children or to families whose homes have been bombed by ward — so as to be those within whose own painful perplexity the Holy Spirit will plead to the…
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The kingdom of God and suffering
In the past few weeks I’ve had a similar question posed to me: “When did you come to faith?” My answer has been a bit longer because I honestly can’t remember a time I wasn’t aware of Jesus in my life in a way where I knew he was there and I was somehow following him.
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Lament for a broken society
Another mass shooting. Another round of hand ringing. No more solutions. There are the empty promises. A governor who swears they are doing more for “mental health”… without offering any proof.
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Deep sorrow in our world
This past weekend brought compound tragedy into our world. The earthquake in Haiti, the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the ongoing spike in COVID… It has been sorrow on a magnified scale. How do I pray? One great help to me over the past few weeks is to pray the Great Litany regularly. It is a helpful prayer that…
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We are not yet broken
I love David French. He pulls no punches. This past week my own (new to me) denomination has been exposed for mishandling sexual abuse claims in a diocese. French highlights that to point out the ongoing problems we have in the American Church.
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In a year we have learned nothing
A composition of lament. (I don’t know how to write a poem.) In a year… Ahmaud Arbery… Breonna Taylor… George Floyd… and more… WE HAVE LEARNED NOTHING.
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Holy Saturday
O Lord, why do you cast my soul away?Why do you hide your face from me? (Psalm 88:14)
Tag: Lament
