#30SecondBible: Lamentations

We’re Hoping For

By The Real Reverends of New York City

Low point: What do you do when your holy city is destroyed? You turn to your artists and your poets. Because it's pretty terrible. It's pretty bad. And it's only the artists and the poets who can give voice to the anguish. Will God remember the pain? Will God remember the pain? Will she? That is the question that the book of Lamentations offers to us. Lamentations asks a question: Will God remember us in our anguish, in our pain? We sure hope so. At least, we hope so. We believe so. We're hoping for.

  1. How has God met you in the low points of you life?
  2. Will God remember us in our anguish, in our pain?

A Pissed Off People

By The Real Reverends of New York City

Where is the good news in the book of Lamentations? Where is the good news in the saddest book of the Bible? The good news is that we can be a pissed off people. We can be a pissed off people and not when you just don't get tickets to the Formation world tour. (Truth.) The good news is that we can cry out to God for justice and for mercy and to keep God accountable to the prayers that God has promised us. Ultimately whatever we're feeling we can bring into the presence of God. And we can tell God to remember us. God speaks more through poetry than think pieces. (Preach.) Whatever we are feeling, whatever we are experiencing, it can all be brought forward into the presence of God.

  1. When was the last time you were pissed off at God?
  2. “God speaks more through poetry than think pieces.” Do you agree or disagree? Why?

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