Lamentations: Crying Out to Our Compassionate God
What does Lamentations have to do with everyday family discipleship?
In this week’s episode of The Wholehearted Households Podcast, host Helen Lee introduces us to the book of Lamentations, reflecting on deep moments of grief her own family has experienced in these past few years, and how God’s people have processed their own grief for millennia.
Our Bible spotlight focuses on how Lamentations contrasts Jerusalem’s past glory with its present anguish, and how the Israelites express their suffering to God through poetic reflection and corporate lament.
Then, our discipleship nugget equips you to lead your family through an exercise that expresses both suffering and hope, reminding us that, because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed with despair even in our suffering.
Finally, our spiritual practice invites you into a time of lament where we can lay our grief and pain before God through a breath prayer.
Wherever you listen, may you and your family be blessed by this episode as you seek to follow Jesus with your whole heart.
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Resources from the episode
This week’s Bible spotlight is adapted from Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times (www.ivpress.com/prophetic-lament) by Soong-Chan Rah.
This week’s discipleship nugget includes quotes from Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep (www.ivpress.com/prayer-in-the-night) by Tish Harrison Warren.
This week’s spiritual practice is adapted from Hopeful Lament: Tending Our Grief Through Spiritual Practices (www.ivpress.com/hopeful-lament) by Terra McDaniel and Moms at the Well: Meeting God Through the Mothers of Scripture (www.ivpress.com/moms-at-the-well) by Tara Edelschick and Kathy Tuan-MacLean.
Credits
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✅ Hosts: Alex Blount and Helen Lee
✅ Narrators: Kaitlin Borek, Jack Reece, and Karen Savella Stallard
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✅ Theme Song: “Elegant Flight” by Sounds Like Sanders and “Birdhouse” by EVOE
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