Such a great blog on Beautiful Prayer from my friend Joe Chambers
“We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.” ~ C.S. Lewis
“Into your hand I commit my spirit.” ~ Jesus and David
One of the truths I grip with all my strength is the fact that without suffering in this life we will never know a deep aspect of the character of God—His presence. Jesus promised us that we would feel the comfort of our heavenly Father when we mourn, and he said we would experience the blessing of God because of it.
Comfort from our heavenly Father and on top of that “blessing” or “favor” —when we mourn.
When we tell our story of pain, we gain authority over that story. Our painful experience transforms in the telling. I believe that is why there are more Psalms of Lament in the old Jewish hymnbook than any other genre.
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