Learning How to Grieve from Lamentations

Reflections

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God, Spirituality, Jesus, The Bible Project, Tim Mackie, Theology, Bibleproject, Meditation, Religion, New Testament, Bible, Mindfulness, Religion & Spirituality, Bible Study, Cheree Hayes, Christianity, Old Testament, Reflection

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The biblical authors of Lamentations and Psalms invite us to express our grief, anger, and sadness to God. But this is hard. It’s so much easier to either avoid pain with numbing distractions or vent out frustrations without ever bringing them to God. But he is patient. He understands how painful our situations are, and he cares and grieves with us. Today, let’s practice grieving with him.

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0:00.0	How can we get through our grief?
0:20.3	Hi friends, this is Shri at Bible Project.
0:23.6	In this episode, we're exploring what it means to express our anger and sadness to God
0:29.0	while we're suffering loss.
0:31.2	If you or someone you love is grieving right now, stay tuned.
0:35.2	Today's reflection will encourage you.
0:37.8	Listen in.
0:40.3	Hey, this is Karissa at Bible Project.
0:42.4	Today, we are taking a look at the book of Lamentations.
0:46.1	Lamentations is a short collection of poems that focuses on suffering and grief.
0:50.9	In particular, this book is a response to the fall of Jerusalem,
0:54.6	and it explores what it was like to live in Jerusalem when it was captured
0:58.2	and destroyed by Babylon around 586 BCE, and it was horrific.
1:04.3	In many ways, the book is like other memoirs of those who have gone through brutal historical
1:09.3	moments.
1:10.3	A communal diary of poems expressing some of the worst things imaginable, parents watching
1:15.6	their own children suffer and starve, and unspeakable things beyond this.
1:21.4	This is literature of the oppressed.
1:24.1	In some ways, it resembles literature of other suffering communities, and in other ways,
1:29.0	it's unique.
1:30.0	For one, it's written in poetic style.
1:32.6	Poetry was a vehicle of communication used by the biblical authors for expressing things
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