S5 Ep. 3 / Carol Collier on Lament: How to Cry Out to God in Suffering
So often, we don’t connect lament with an act of faith.
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In our conversation this episode, we get to hear from Carol Collier who walked the horrific journey of watching her husband die of ALS. And not too long after, she suddenly lost her seemingly perfectly healthy adult daughter to covid. At the end of all interventions in both lives she dearly loved, she stood at the edge of the bed with the person she loved dying and struggling to breathe.
In these hardships, she grew to know in the depths of her being that it wasn’t about her grip on the Lord but it was all about His grip on her. From this place of security, she has embraced lament.
Carol considers herself a student of lament. She calls lament one of her life’s companions.
So often, we don’t connect lament with an act of faith. But really it’s moving towards God, because we’re talking to Him. The reality of lament, is that we’re saying what is true… that we were not made for death and decay and pain. So we are ultimately agreeing with God.
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