As we continue to grieve last week’s tragedy at Emmanuel AME church, it can be hard to know what to feel, what to say, how to respond. Emotions can be a roller coaster varying wildly from day to day, even moment to moment. Sadness, shock, anger, guilt, numbness, etc. Such is the nature of grief. Fortunately, in God’s perfect providence, this morning is the one Sunday each year where our lectionary leads us into the biblical text written specifically for moments like this, the great book of Lamentations. Lamentations is the Church’s prayerbook for times of trauma and trial. It gives us words for the feelings we may struggle to express. And in it’s tear-stained pages we find a radiant hope that the world does not know.

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