Michael Card, A Sacred Sorrow
“[An] important movement we see in biblical lament is the exhausting of the self against God and the eventual turning back to Him….In faith, driven by guilt, fear, doubt, frustration, or even anger, I cry out to God. I give voice to my hurt, my complaint, all the black bitterness I hold against my enemy…At some unpredictable point in the lament, a turn is made. The self, exhausted of its emotional energy, seems to collapse into the Presence of the One who was there, seen or unseen, all along.”
“Far from denying the existence of God, the lament of faith cries out on the basis of an appeal to the living God’s loving-kindness, in spite of the fact that the present conditions would suggest otherwise.”