Suffering: Mystery and presence, the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, rediscovering lament and the Gethsemane prayer
Matters of Life and Death
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The Gift of God Lament
I think it's a profound kind of kindness a gift to god from from god to us yes I've just remembered that earlier on in the Ukrainian war there was a video that went the rounds wasn't it of christians praying one of the Psalms when they were actually under attack and the line is like you know in a city under bombardment I saw your face or something like that. So I think there is there's some real significance here and the this theme of god lament It seems almost the high point of the of the personal laments is in Psalm 22 my god my god why have you forsaken me but then going through this movement of letting go towards ultimately this place of
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