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- To express profound sorrow for or concerning; also, in modern use, to feel sorrow for; to mourn for the loss of (a person); to bewail (an occurrence, etc.: with simple object or clause).
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The meaning of LAMENT is to mourn aloud : wail. How to use lament in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Lament.
Someone's lament is an expression of their sadness, regret, or disappointment about something. A lament is a poem, song, or piece of music which expresses sorrow that someone has died. A singer on the country music station was singing a lament for the late, great Buddy Holly.
to express sadness and feeling sorry about something: The poem opens by lamenting (over) the death of a young man. My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society. The late lamented (= dead and remembered with love) Frank Giotto used to live here. Synonyms.
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- How We Deal with Bad News of Injustice
- How Humans Work
- What Is Lament?
- How Lament Helps Everyday People Process Suffering
- Lamenting as A Spiritual Discipline
- What Lament Give Us
- Allow Yourself Room and Lament
In case you missed the news yesterday (and no judgement here, the news sucks), Turkey invaded Northern Syria when the U.S. pulled out. We all knew the United States wouldn’t stay forever, and nations in the area don’t like the Kurds, who were making their own space in the Syrian North while fighting was going down with ISIS. Honestly, the deets are...
Scrolling through the news feed we see a sad picture or read some lines of text. It is horrible. Inhuman. Unthinkable. This is often how my brain handles it: *Screeching brakes* *Shut the door* *Change subject fast* We.Are.Done.Here. That’s about all we can take, right? That painful itching, scratching inside. It is just too much, gagaggggggagga . ...
But this is how we work as humans. We know empathy is paramount for connection, love, family, to be fully alive (at least according to Brene Browns extensive research.) But we just can’t empathize thatmuch. Years ago I rewrote Syria’s story, superimposing it into the story of the United States, simply to try to get in their shoes and empathize. I t...
Lament is an ancient art. Historically, it is mourning, often accompanied by ashes, wailing, scratchy sackcloth and fasting. Often it was public and could be done corporately. Lamenting is grieving, but many use it in conjunction with prayer. Heck, I won’t even open Twitter to read about Turkey, Kurds, and Syria. Too much yuck. Lamenting is the dam...
Justice-seekers know that we can’t turn from injustice and simply look the other way. Our theology must allow room for suffering. It cannot notaddress it. Lament makes this possible. Through lament, we grieve to grapple with suffering. Through lament, we foster empathy, connecting us with people close or far, and it helps us see them as equals. We ...
For those of us of faith, lamenting is a spiritual discipline. It requires honesty, vulnerability, anger, confession and ultimately, surrender. But as we do it with God, we commune, wait, and prime ourselves to be put into action, as action is always the next step.
And that is the other reason everyday people gain something good through practicing lament. Through it, we almost always find our next steps to act. It causes us to get to a place where we must do something, a stage I call “early action.” Early action isn’t where we end up, but it is essential to begin figuring out where we fit. For years I’ve stud...
What if everyday people choose to process injustice and the news this way? Not just weird people who like old words like “lament”? Of course, it is a good idea to make boundaries as we face injustice (my mom calls this “cacooning”–but that is a post for another time). And we often have to schedule time to lament (like I did a little processing Meg’...
Jun 6, 2022 · In their grief, they proclaimed, “We don’t want God, we want Egypt!”. Herein lies the difference between lament and grumbling. Grumbling is when our grief and anguish drives us not further into the promises and comfort of God, but rather farther from God.
to express sadness and feeling sorry about something: The poem opens by lamenting (over) the death of a young man. My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society. The late lamented (= dead and remembered with love) Frank Giotto used to live here. Synonyms. bemoanformal.
