Worship God in the Waiting – Hold On to Hope
Zachariah and Elizabeth held on, they lived lives of trust in a God they couldn’t see or hear. They learned how to worship God in the waiting and so can we.
Lament Posts
Don’t Sing Happy Songs to a Heavy Heart
Singing happy songs to a heavy heart is cruel. Don’t tell grieving people that their pain is a gift or make them sing praise songs when they don’t want to. Don’t tell them that other people are suffering more than they are.
A Prayer of Dark Despair • When Hope Seems Lost
I find it striking that Psalm 88 includes virtually no words of reassurance. Nowhere does the psalmist add parenthetically, “But you are the Lord of mercy and compassion,” or anything else like this. Most psalms of lament include words of hope. Not Psalm 88. Here we find dark despair.
Make Me Poems – Metaphor for Poetry and Prayer
Abigail Carroll said these are poems of lament. In writing these “Make Me” poems, she began to lean into metaphor, changing not only how she wrote but also how she prayed.
