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For many of us, church culture has subtly (or not so subtly) taught us that faith means being happy, victorious, and full of praise. We learn to suppress "negative" emotions, seeing them as a failure of trust. But the Bible paints a very different picture. Roughly a third of the Psalms are psalms of lament. The book of Lamentations is a raw outcry of communal grief. Job argues with God. Jeremiah is called "the weeping prophet." And Jesus himself, in the garden and on the cross, lamented. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbd723085c6613b8122dedc/f4432812-9ba6-4f37-9692-3182d5da2e3d/linus-belanger-aZXpazbjOgU-unsplash.JPG Lament Practice - Pt. 1 - Permission to Grieve - Practice: Grounding Breath Just take a moment to connect with your body and the present moment. You can use this grounding practice at any point during our series when you feel activated or disconnected. Find your feet. If you're sitting, press your feet firmly onto the floor. Notice the sensation of the ground beneath you—solid, stable, holding you up. Notice your breath. Don't try to change it. Just notice the air entering your nose and filling your lungs. Notice it leaving your body. Box Breathing. If it feels comfortable, try this simple pattern: Inhale slowly for a count of 4. Hold your breath for a count of 4. Exhale slowly for a count of 4. Hold the exhale for a count of 4. Repeat. Continue this for a minute or two, allowing your nervous system to settle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbd723085c6613b8122dedc/65b9e87b-7fa3-44b0-9f94-deca7969a159/unsplash-image-tcyW6Im5Uug.jpg Lament Practice - Pt. 1 - Permission to Grieve - Reflection Take 5 to 10 minutes to journal and answer these questions. Notice what feelings come up as you reflect, and welcome them without any judgement. What has been your past experience with expressing emotions like sadness or anger in a faith context? 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How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 3 Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, 4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall. 5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. 6 I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbd723085c6613b8122dedc/c0aab1b8-2d53-4e47-a11f-0bba98e760ec/priscilla-du-preez-UP_2bbE5lrA-unsplash.jpg Lament Practice - Pt. 2 - Learning the Language of the Psalms - Journal Reflection Which of the four "movements" of lament (Address, Complaint, Petition, Trust) feels the most familiar or accessible to you in this moment? Which feels the most difficult? What was the experience of reading Psalm 22 like? (No need to share the content of your thoughts, just the experience of the practice itself.) https://www.speakout.courses/lament-practice/39ces13wvz561n865hyv084po4es3d monthly 0.5 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbd723085c6613b8122dedc/aedded09-d75b-4793-9956-4ef76954b188/nikita-kozlov-9h74IIWLeXQ-unsplash.png Lament Practice - Pt. 3 - Tending Your Own Wounds We can create gentle, intentional spaces to begin expressing our own unique pain, using different languages beyond just words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fbd723085c6613b8122dedc/4795a2c5-a771-40bc-99d1-5cccf662cf6a/sheh-mi-3HWUvyrY548-unsplash+2.png Lament Practice - Pt. 3 - Tending Your Own Wounds - Practice: a Gentle, Personal Lament Choose one of the methods above (writing, art, music, movement, silence) that feels most accessible to you right now. Set a timer for just 5-10 minutes. Before you begin, do a grounding exercise. 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