Despair: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

                 Despair

                Molested 

                beaten

                abandoned

                mourning buries

                broken hearts

                all despair

                dancing youth

                long forgotten

                songs silenced

                deliverance

                last hope

                seek Savior

                Messiah

                bound

                answered

                mediates faith

                brings truth

                all return.

Psalm 37:38: "But the transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off."

Reflection: Restore: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

        1. What has been the most recent season where mourning has silenced the joy in your life?

        2. Were you able to keep bitterness and fear from taking hold? How?

        3. Like Israel are you able to cling to God and turn to Him when evil appears to prevail?

Share: Psalm 30 says that the Lord has turned "my mourning into dancing." Do you believe the Lord will do this? have you experienced it yourself?

        

Restore: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

Reading: Lamentations 5:11-15: "...Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music. The joy of our hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning." 

Restore

Mourning--loss--fear--tears--each rip us apart. We replace love and hope with anger and dread and sometimes become determined to battle. Or sometimes to fade away into isolation internally and externally.

Grief cannot be mended. Yet only in the Lord can it be softened into sadness and memories. To remember and embrace without torment.

To cherish life day by day in all circumstances and become compassionate to others in heartbreak.

Lord, guide each of us to pray to hold onto You in grief and in joy, in mourning and in joy, in isolations and joy. Your light alone, by Your direction, will show us how to live into peace in all circumstances.

Your thoughts,