Hopeful Lament, Terra McDaniel
Hopeful Lament, Terra McDaniel
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Hopeful Lament
Tending Our Grief Through Spiritual Practices

Author: Terra McDaniel

Narrator: Terra McDaniel

Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/26/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

We need to rediscover lament to heal and hope again.

We've lost the practice of lament. Most people don't know how to process personal or communal mourning and instead struggle to honor their tears, vulnerability, and the full weight of these disillusioning times. But tending our grief might be exactly what we need to reimagine a way forward.

Tracing her difficult experiences of a catastrophic home fire, a threat to her child's well-being, and other devastating losses and upheavals, Terra McDaniel offers a clear framework for expressing heartache and burdens. McDaniel says, "Lament is surprisingly hopeful. As strange as that may sound now, I promise it's true. It's an act of trust both that we can face pain and survive, and that God cares about our anger, confusion, doubt, grief, and fear. Lament refuses to bury pain or, just as dangerous, to give in to despair."

Hopeful Lament makes space for the powerful act of crying out before a loving God and offers provoking reflection questions, embodied practices, and applications for families with children. Learn how to journey gently through suffering.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Panda on July 21, 2023

Terra McDaniel writes about how essential lament is in the Christian life, helping her readers understand how they can truly grieve their losses without papering over their pain through platitudes or spiritual bypassing. She writes some about how her theology has shifted and changed over time toward......more

Goodreads review by Michele on December 19, 2023

Terra McDaniel’s excellent work toward recovering lament is a gift. At the outset, she argues that “lament is surprisingly hopeful,” and her own story of personal loss and grief is a solid anchor for the practices she shares for processing the sorrows of life. Since most Westerners need a nudge to fe......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy on March 18, 2024

I really appreciated McDaniel's thorough, multi-faceted approach to grief and lament. She understands that to grieve well, we can't stay in our heads. Terra weaves together her family's story of loss with key Scripture, spiritual practices, and compassion. I'll be buying a few copies to give away.......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia on December 02, 2024

We need McDaniel's beautiful book, Hopeful Lament, to coach us in our lament. The book offers stories and lament practices that can help us better cope. I loved it!......more

Goodreads review by Bob on November 16, 2023

Summary: Out of a string of experiences of loss, the writer, a spiritual director writes about grief, lament, and the hope inherent in biblical lament. Terra McDaniel and her family went through a season of life where her friends began to liken her to Job. Their house burned to the ground, their daug......more