Today We Practice Lament

Today, we practice lament. There are plenty of places in the world that are filled with injustice, both abroad and at home, in politics and law enforcement, in economics and education, around race and gender and sexuality and class and ability and citizenship status, and in so many other ways. Which ones are stirring your heart?

As one faith leader put it, “Today I will listen louder than I speak, and look for the tables that Jesus is flipping”(Rev Sarah Are). Jesus himself wept on his way into Jerusalem - just before flipping tables. And the prophet Habakuk wept over his broken world as he looked over the destruction of his beloved Jerusalem from the city walls, waiting for God’s deliverance:

I will stand at my watch
and station myself on the ramparts;
I will look to see what he will say to me,
and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
- Habakuk 2:1

So much learning about protest (our theme for the week) is learning how to lament well. What do you lament this week?