The Journal
Reflections on Scripture, story, beauty, grief, faith,
and the ordinary places God meets us.
Begin Again: The Return of Inscribe The Word Monthly
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Grief. Part Four: Learning to Lament. Grief as Worship.
Biblical lament is grief spoken in prayer. It is what happens when sorrow, confusion, disappointment, anger, and longing are no longer hidden or swallowed, but carried to the Lord instead.
Grief. Part Three: Grieving the Life You Thought You’d Have
There is a gap between expectation and reality that often doesn’t get spoken about. We sit in that gap, looking back at what we thought would be and forward into what is. No one prepared me for sitting in that gap, and the grief of realizing that life didn’t turn out the way I thought it would.