In times of trouble, we seek out safety and security. There is safety in being heard; we feel a bit more grounded and understood when someone listens to our pain. First let me say, it would be fair to maintain that most individuals have not been taught effective skills to process emotional pain. ...
Change the Script: Transforming Your Thought Life Through Lament
Do you ever give much thought to the voice inside your head? I’m talking about the script that so often seems to run on auto pilot and provides an endless flow of messages in which we may not even be aware. This dialogue we unwittingly have with ourselves can be so constant and repetitive that we ...
Is It Grumbling or Lamenting?
“God is our refuge and strength, An ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way And the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, Though its waters roar and foam And the mountains quake with their surging.” Psalm 46:1-3 Psalm 46 opens with ...
Let the Little Children Come: Childhood Lament
Have you ever been taken aback by a child’s brutal honesty? Perhaps a comment about your wrinkles or the way you smell, or even a wiser observation about your mood or way of being. I think of this often as I remember all of the play therapy clients that I have worked with, but also in observing my ...
Blessed are Those Who Lament
The upside-down Kingdom of Jesus is one that leaves many of us scratching our heads in confusion. Jesus has a lot to say about how to live in the Kingdom of God and what a life of apprenticing to Him produces within the inner man and woman despite life’s circumstances. The Sermon on the Mount ...
Lamenting in Marriage
Marriage, in its purest form, is a lifelong, covenant relationship between one man, one woman, and God. It is meant to be a loving, intimate, and selfless relationship that involves spiritual, emotional, and physical closeness. The Bible describes marriage as having many purposes, including ...
The Prayer of an Aged Believer: Psalm 71
The Prayer of an Aged Believer Most Bible commentators believe this is a psalm of David and is his prayer and trust in God during his later years under the crisis of his son Absalom’s rebellion. Since there is no title and the text of the psalm does not say this, we will not speculate and treat ...
Are You a Good Complainer?
At first glance complaining appears to be nothing but negative. If someone were to put a glass of water in front of you filled up halfway, what would you see? Would you see a glass half empty, or would you see a glass half full? As you know the half empty perspective is considered pessimistic. This ...
How Lamenting Leads to Spiritual and Mental Growth
When practicing the skill of lamenting it leads to spiritual and mental growth. You may be asking how is this so? To engage in lamenting, you eventually start to answer certain questions that tell you where you are in your relationship with God and how to work through the emotional and spiritual ...
Teaching Teens to Lament
Our initial reaction to teens needing to learn how to lament may be incredulity. What do teenagers need to lament about? What significant loss could they be experiencing that would benefit from deep processing and require healing? I agree that not all teens may be experiencing intense grief and loss ...
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