1. Learn to Lament To lament is to give voice to the problem or issues;
It says things as they are
It gives voice to the cry of ‘where is God?’
And then lays alongside that complaint, truth about God
Having done so, voice is given again to the problem or issues,
but with the inclusion of those truths.

2. Mirror, mirror … God has felt and experienced suffering as a human.
His intimacy is powerfully portrayed in Jesus; God made man, abandoned and condemned to the cross
“My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” (Psalm 22:1)
Lament voiced; no hiding, no spin; real life, real pain
How is that for intimacy? He knows, he hears, he feels

3. HOPE Don’t look at life to try and see God; Look at God and see life
Heaven’s Original Perspective, toward Earth