The Power of Expressing Your Grief

When pain is crushing you, darkness feels like it is surrounding you, and you are overwhelmed by the things that need to be done that you simply don’t have the energy to accomplish… what should you do? 

Maybe you feel like, well God uses everything for good so I should be joyful knowing that truth. Do you feel like something is wrong with you because you can’t feel joyful? When your heart is breaking - don’t you just want to hide until you don’t feel this way anymore?

Enter lament. Something I had never experienced in my life until I discovered my wife’s affair and our subsequent divorce. It was standing in an empty home, the home that we were planning to raise our kids in, that I let out an authentic, God-honoring, non-stoic, expression of my grief. 

There are many examples and Bible passages on lament, there’s an entire book dedicated to it! Today, we are going to read and reflect on the power of lament in the book of Ruth. 

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John

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