Hello friends and welcome to another Robcast.

This is Robcast 92.

And this one is called Learning to Lament,

part one, the culture of denial.

So here's what we're gonna do.

There's gonna be a new podcast every day this week.

And I am going to take you through

in the middle of the Bible

is this collection of poems called Lamentations.

And they're totally easy to skip right by

because they're only just a couple of pages.

And they're about grief, loss, pain, and heartache.

And I get to meet so many of you

and so many people are carrying around

all this grief and loss and pain and heartache.

So I wanna do this whole series

and I wanna talk about learning to Lament.

Lamenting is like an art form.

It's like a, it's almost like a skill or a practice

that many people weren't ever taught.

And it's absolutely necessary to be healthy

and whole and fully alive.

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