Hopeful Lament: Tending Our Grief Through Spiritual Practices McDaniel Terra

We need to rediscover lament to heal and hope again.We've lost the practice of lament. But tending our grief might be exactly what we need to reimagine a way forward.Tracing her difficult experiences of a catastrophic home fire, a threat to her child's well-being, and other devastating losses and upheavals, Terra McDaniel offers a clear framework for expressing heartache and burdens. Most people don't know how to process personal or communal mourning and instead struggle to honor their tears, vulnerability, and the full weight of these disillusioning times.

As strange as that may sound now, I promise it's true. McDaniel says, "Lament is surprisingly hopeful. It's an act of trust both that we can face pain and survive, and that God cares about our anger, confusion, doubt, grief, and fear.

Lament refuses to bury pain or, just as dangerous, to give in to