Wednesday, May 30, 2018

What do I know of lament?


What do I know of lament?

Of what do I understand of suffering?

How do we call witness to a loving God in the face of another’s pain?

Where is mercy when injustice runs rampant?

What does grace mean when you are oppressed

Is it just for the privileged to be blessed?

Oh what do I know of lament?

The earth cries out from the burden of pollution

The waters rail against toxic waste

The bodies of our children pile up in decay

Sickness and cancer abounds
How can we deny the pain all around?

What do I know of lament?

Hatred and love of self is on the rise

“Isms”, places that  divide

Waistlines and wallets fatten

As poverty and hopelessness devour
Trust is twisted as other’s abuse power

What do I know of lament?

 Church’s wounding those all around

The truth of Jesus buried beneath the ache

Cities and countries gobbled up by quakes

Flood waters wreaking devastation
The groaning of all creation

What do we know of lament?

In honest appraisal let us asses,

 All artifice stripped so we can enter in,

In all our ugliness, hurt and pain.

Let us wail and repent
Give voice to our lament

Who knows of lament?

He does…
The one who formed all, waits to hear our cries

The one enthroned above who longs to respond

The one who bent down low to come along side

His arms aching to hold and comfort as we stop pretending its ok.
Jesus the son dying to make the only way




Psalm 22:1-5
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so far from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?
 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,

    by night, but I find no rest.[b]
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
    you are the one Israel praises.[c]
 In you our ancestors put their trust;

    they trusted and you delivered them.
 To you they cried out and were saved;

    in you they trusted and were not put to shame.





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