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You can talk to God like that : the surprising power of lament to save your faith / Abby Norman.

By: Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Broadleaf Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 126 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 150646906X
  • 9781506469065
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Contents:
Part One: Lament to God -- 1. Do Good Christians Have Bad Feelings? : An Invitation to Biblical Lament -- 2. What If I Am Not Fine?: Learning to Feel All Our Feelings -- 3. Can God Handle All of Me?: Lament to a Trustworthy God -- Part Two: Lament in Community -- 4. We Can All Be Sad Together: Lament So We Are Not Alone -- 5. We Can Admit We're Wrong: Lament So We Change for the Better -- 6. We Can Hear Those in Need: Lament So We Can Be with People Who Hurt -- Part Three: Public Lament as an Agent of Change -- 7. We Will Not Be Silent: Lament Is Speaking Truth to Power -- Conclusion: Lament as Revealing the Heart of God -- Benediction
Summary: Praise is the only path to God--at least this is what many of us have been taught. But the notion that we have to be positive all the time, putting on a happy face through anger, frustration, and pain, hinders our ability not only to heal ourselves and society, but to have an authentic relationship with the Divine. We long to connect with God over the very real sorrow in our lives and in the world around us, but so many of us were never shown how. This lack of knowing how to lament--an ancient practice of expressing anger and pain to God--damages us personally and spiritually. Pastor Abby Norman is here to tell us that we can talk to God like that. In her fresh, tell-it-like-it-is voice, she unpacks the power of lament, providing us with the tools and the grace-filled permission to heal the problems we have been ignoring for too long. She shows us how to express our laments to God and to each other when things are definitely not okay. And through this process we will discover a richer connection with God--who has wanted nothing more than our whole selves from the start.
List(s) this item appears in: Grief / Lament / Sorrow
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Part One: Lament to God -- 1. Do Good Christians Have Bad Feelings? : An Invitation to Biblical Lament -- 2. What If I Am Not Fine?: Learning to Feel All Our Feelings -- 3. Can God Handle All of Me?: Lament to a Trustworthy God -- Part Two: Lament in Community -- 4. We Can All Be Sad Together: Lament So We Are Not Alone -- 5. We Can Admit We're Wrong: Lament So We Change for the Better -- 6. We Can Hear Those in Need: Lament So We Can Be with People Who Hurt -- Part Three: Public Lament as an Agent of Change -- 7. We Will Not Be Silent: Lament Is Speaking Truth to Power -- Conclusion: Lament as Revealing the Heart of God -- Benediction

Praise is the only path to God--at least this is what many of us have been taught. But the notion that we have to be positive all the time, putting on a happy face through anger, frustration, and pain, hinders our ability not only to heal ourselves and society, but to have an authentic relationship with the Divine. We long to connect with God over the very real sorrow in our lives and in the world around us, but so many of us were never shown how. This lack of knowing how to lament--an ancient practice of expressing anger and pain to God--damages us personally and spiritually. Pastor Abby Norman is here to tell us that we can talk to God like that. In her fresh, tell-it-like-it-is voice, she unpacks the power of lament, providing us with the tools and the grace-filled permission to heal the problems we have been ignoring for too long. She shows us how to express our laments to God and to each other when things are definitely not okay. And through this process we will discover a richer connection with God--who has wanted nothing more than our whole selves from the start.

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