How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! Bitterly she weeps at night… there is no one to comfort her. Lamentations 1:1-2 As the heart cries, there’s an attempt to reflect upon the meaning of human suffering. We cry out to God for mercy, and we search for comfort to come. People look… Read More Be Not Consumed: What Lamenting Looks Like
A time of reckoning has come. Accounting for our actions and sins has pressed in upon us. There will be pain, despondency, possible death, and deliverance. But no matter where we find ourselves, the road to penitence may be the only way to get there. Psalm 6 is a penitential lament, a psalm of discipline… Read More A Psalm of Discipline: Lament of a Penitent Man
Reading Through Lent Have you waited a long time for something to happen? Has your expectant heart been biting nails, searching in the mail and checking for messages? Has your patience been stretched? Why isn’t this thing happening or this person arriving or this notification coming? Do you even know what it is that you… Read More Reading Through Lent: The Books of Luke and Acts