LAMENTS

Well who doesn't have these at times? I think it would be impossible to go through life and not have the moments we panic and feel totally broken.

Naturally, those are not times we feel a need to celebrate. We will need a feel a need to complain. Course complaining is never a process that gets us any improvement in some problems.

It will make a different in certain situations. In others, the venting might feel good, but otherwise it probably won't make any difference.

With a complain, it can be valid if the problem was unjust or undeserved. However, if we feel it deeply in ours spirits it can reach down so far into our souls we can truly be in need of that type of painful moan that comes from pure despair.

If one has a complaint it is different. You might be angry, but outside of venting or trying to take care of the problem, you will get over it.

With a lament I think it runs so much farther into being a cumulative sensation. Something that has built up over the years.

Which only magnifies the problem. It can take a minor issue and make it seem like the end of the world.

Too many times this can be like having your guts ripped out. That can so cripple one's mood.

And unlike a simple complaint with a lament, it truly does need to be lifted up to the Lord. For only his spirit has the power to touch where we hurt in such situations.

He can give us peace when we have none. He can touch where we hurt the most. And that is always a blessing.

Providing we reach up and seek him first and foremost. Then he will extend his love to help us through the shadows. It can be such a blessing too.

For with his help we can find a calm in the middle of our storm. To let him offer us a life preserver that will help us to endure.

Doesn't mean we won't get soaked, just that we will survive and that is the important part. For that will help to see where live is in balance. And that means a lot.

It can let us reach beyond ourselves to places we can truly rise above who we are and see life as more. Then we can see our lament for what it is and not for the end of the world. Calm can touch us in the process. Life can become a song. And we can savor it for always with God's help.