Hey, Bridge Down.

This is Dave Lomas and for John Mark Comer, Grace and Peace to you all.

Today is Tuesday, June 9th.

And today, I would like to lead you through an exercise, a practice of lament.

You can do this on your walk or in your house, sitting on your favorite chair or for some reason,

you're driving somewhere, you can even do this in the car.

The only requirement is that you participate and that you don't try to multitask.

Now, I'm going to lead you through this lament and offer times of silence.

I'm only going to give you a few seconds and moments of silence, where you can fill in the silence with your own prayer.

Now, I recommend that you pause it after every question and journal or spend more time in lament.

But for podcast reasons, I'll move through this fairly quickly.

First of all, what is a lament?

We started yesterday by saying that a lament in the scriptures is a prayerful response to the reality of suffering that engages God in the context of pain and trouble.

One of my good friends, Brian Laritz, says that when injustice happens in the world, moving to action is like hand sanitizer for a guilty conscience.

We're actually supposed to sit in lament first.

So let's do that. We're doing that this whole week, but let me formally invite you to lament your lament.

However, whatever you need to lament, my lament is going to look different from your lament.

We're all going to do this together.

One thing that I think is important to remember right here is sometimes,

laments don't feel theologically correct.

What I mean by that is if you've ever read a Psalm and thought, is that, how is that in the Bible?

That doesn't feel or seem like you can say that to God.

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