November 07, 2023

S5 Ep. 4 / How to Write a Lament

37 minutes

>> Click HERE to get free visuals, handouts and discussion questions for Conversational Counseling sent straight to your email! <<⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠(If you've already signed up for our email list, you'll receive them at each release.)

In our conversation this episode we walk through the importance of practicing lament and how to write our own laments to the Lord. Through the practice of personalizing a lament we can lay all of our pain and messiness before the Lord who will never stop loving us or get tired of us bringing all of our struggles and deep hurts to Him. This expression of trust in God allows us to struggle through our emotions with Him, not apart from Him, and begin to move towards hope in Him despite our emotions and circumstances.

This episode was originally recorded as part of our Real Life Discipleship Counseling class in 2021. You might notice slight differences in the audio quality, but it fits in perfectly with this season’s theme of suffering. It has been a fruitful teaching for so many and we wanted to share it will you here. We hope it bring you and hope and help wherever you are today.

For the personal lament handout click here.

Our theme music is by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠As Isaac⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This podcast is made possible by engineers and producers ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Zachary Tate Smith⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shane Selby⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, executive producer ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Meleah Smith⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠generous donors⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Known Ministries⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alex Kocher⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and Brenda Payne. Thank you for listening to our fifth season of Conversational Counseling about suffering.

...more