This year has forced us to do two things we’re not especially comfortable with:
💠 Learn how to lament and grieve
💠 Recognize our own vulnerability
American culture doesn’t leave much space for these things. I share that struggle. My knee jerk reaction to sadness or vulnerability is to look for a chaser of good news or silver linings. But my biggest lessons lately have been in these areas. Nothing heals until it is grieved. And grief is an inherently vulnerable act that binds us to each other.
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These topics might not seem like the stuff of an *explosive season opener* but I knew they were the ones we had to lead off with for season two of the #GrassrootsPodcast. Here are two of my favorite moments from the episode:
❇️ Kayla Craig graced us with a Liturgy for Big Feelings - Next year, she’ll be releasing a whole book of Liturgies for Parents that I can’t wait for! I have a very special admiration for anyone who takes a world that’s hard enough for adults to process and then asks… well what about the kids?
❇️ Peter Harris is the co-founder of A Rocha - a Christian conservation organization and lament helps him powerfully integrate his faith with his environmental concern. “There are half the number of swifts in the sky today over my village and nesting in my village as there were 20 years ago,” he told me. “What we see in Scripture is God's broken heart about his own creation, in all its dimension. The groaning of creation that Romans talks about.”
He also demonstrated lament and vulnerability by sharing a deeply personal tragedy he’s faced recently.
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You can stream our first episode of season two now!
