A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
A Religion, Theology, Christian book. I found this to be a helpful study of lamentation through the...
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- Pages: 205 pages
- ISBN: 9781576836675 / 1576836673
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This book addresses some tough issues very well. The foreword describes the problem: after breaking down and sobbing at the funeral of his mother, a pastor finishes his benediction and goes to a side room to finish crying. "My twenty-two year old daughter slipped in beside me. We sat together, quiet and weeping our own sacred sorrow.... I found this to be a helpful study of lamentation through the Scriptures, especially in the lives of Job, David, Jeremiah and Jesus. Though Card gets a bit too mystical for me at times, he has strong Scriptural support for his thesis that in the Western church we have taught people that it's not OK to have sorrow. We teach our children... For a book about something as emotional and spirit driven as lament, the subject matter was handled in a way that was more cerebral than I would have preferred. Some fantastic scriptural insights but very little in the way of practical application.
