Lamentações 2:2

We all experience great loss- a relationship, a job, a loved one, or simply life as it once was. We’re sure that life is not supposed to be this way and so we grieve and mourn for what could have been. And we’re not alone. Join us for the fourth week of a 5-part plan that will help us learn the language and heart of lament in Scripture.

Most likely written by the prophet Jeremiah, Lamentations is a collection of poems mourning the siege of Jerusalem and the coming exile of Judah. Despite the wickedness of God’s people that led to their captivity, the writer reminds his readers the loyal love and mercy of the Lord are truly new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23). Even in deep darkness, God is our portion, our hope, and our salvation.

Between Friday's crucifixion and Sunday's resurrection sits Saturday — sealed tombs, locked doors, extinguished hope, silence from heaven. The disciples don't know it's only one day. They know only that everything has ended on a cross. Most of us know Holy Saturday. Not the calendar day — but the experience of it. The space between promise and fulfillment. Between what God said and what you can currently see. This plan is not a collection of reassurances. It is a theological reframing of the dark middle itself — and a case, made from Scripture, that you are not alone in it.