{"id":8994,"date":"2024-05-30T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T17:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshhope.us\/i-will-write-a-lament\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T17:45:03","slug":"i-will-write-a-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshhope.us\/es\/i-will-write-a-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"I Will Write a Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Peggy Rice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My heart is heavy. I\u2019m not crying, not right now, but I can feel the weight in my chest. I\u2019m burdened. I\u2019m sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just returned yesterday from a funeral for a family member, someone I loved very much. He loved the Lord, and so there was certainly a celebration of life \u2013 the one he lived here on earth, and the one he is experiencing now with his Savior in heaven. And I know that, as a believer, I do not grieve as one with no hope (see I Thessalonians 4:13). We have the assurance that he is with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that does not change the fact that there still is grief. For his wife, his mother, his children, his siblings. For the many lives he touched with kindness and gentleness and his smile and his laugh and his sense of humor. For all of those he left behind. Including me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I will cry out to God. I will write a lament, expressing myself to the One who can comfort me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David did it \u2013 the Psalms are full of David pouring out his feelings to God. (Just Google Psalms of Lament \u2013 it\u2019s quite a list!) He sets a great example of giving it all to the Lord \u2013 the good, bad and ugly. The honesty. The protest, the expression of emotions, the voice of confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laments have a general format:<\/p>\n\n\n\n