Lamentations 1
2/26/17
Chris Breslin
“Lament is beating on God’s chest & trusting he’s not going anywhere.” –Mandy Smith
“I thought I had been unwittingly commissioned do the sound track to the end of the world.” –William Bazinski
“Laments are the prayers of the discontented, the disturbed, and the distraught.” –Kathleen O’Connor
Laments create “an alchemy of grief, mourning, and despair” somehow turning them towards an embrace of life. –Kathleen O’Connor
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” –Rogers Hornsby
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
How Long? by Wardell
Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg
Great is Thy Faithfulness by Chilsholm/Runyan
Overwhelmed by White
Rest by Maher/Cockrell
Why So Heavy? by Caswell/Wells
Doxology
Go further:
The Disintegration Loops (Refractions) by Makoto Fujimura
Made in Durham (Justin Cook at Bitter Southerner)
Daily Lenten Scripture readings from Lamentations
Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ by J. Todd Billings
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland
Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda by Emmanuel Katangole
Lamentations and the Tears of the World by Kathleen O’Connor
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong Chan Rah
Every Riven Thing: Poems by Christian Wiman
Lent Reading:
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christ by Stanley Hauerwas
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Easter ed Greg Pennoyer
The Seven Last Words from the Cross by Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Cross by Peter Storey
