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\nAlways speak the truth even if your voice shakes<\/em>  (Photo: Irene Bom)<\/span><\/p>\n

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To introduce this month’s theme of SORROW<\/strong>, an excerpt from the Foreward by Eugene Peterson<\/strong> published in Michael Card’s book, A Sacred Sorrow<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

And if you want to try writing your own psalm of lament, check out the links below.
\n <\/p>\n\n

On weeping<\/h3>\n

Eugene Peterson writes,<\/p>\n

\nIt’s an odd thing. Jesus wept. Job wept. David wept. Jeremiah wept. They did it openly. Their weeping became a matter of public record. Their weeping, sanctioned by inclusion in our Holy Scriptures, a continuing and reliable witness that weeping has an honored place in the life of faith.<\/p>\n

But just try it yourself. Even, maybe especially, in church where these tear soaked Scriptures are provided to shape our souls and form our behaviour. Before you know it, a half dozen men and women surround you with handkerchiefs, murmuring reassurances, telling you that it is going to be alright, intent on helping you to “get over it.”<\/p>\n

Why are Christians, of all people, embarrassed by tears, uneasy in the presence of sorrow, unpracticed in the language of lament? It certainly is not a biblical heritage, for virtually all our ancestors in the faith were thoroughly “acquainted with grief.” And our Savior was, as everyone knows, “a Man of Sorrows.”\n<\/p><\/div>\n

 
\nsource: A Sacred Sorrow<\/em> by Michael Card, p.11
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Compose your own Psalm of Lament<\/h3>\n

During a recent episode of The Habit Podcast<\/em><\/a>, David O. Taylor<\/strong> describes how we might write our own psalm of lament. <\/p>\n

To find out more, go to thehabit.co<\/a> and\/or listen to the podcast episode.
\n <\/p>\n\n

 
\nPrayer poem for Lent 3B : Sweet words<\/a><\/strong>
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\nThis prayer poem is inspired by Psalm 19<\/a>, in particular verse 14: “May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.<\/em>”
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