Forgive us for trampling all over your sovereignty
with our own insecurity.
Teach us that you grieve along with us
concerning Aurora and Newtown and Texas and Boston.
Teach us that to lament is not to question your sovereignty,
but to cry "oh, sovereign Lord, why?"
Teach us that lament is therefore the more faithful option
than pretending that the strife isn't there.
Even Your Son cried out with grief unto death
after predicting his resurrection and ascension.
And so with these pains, teach us to come to You.
In lament, we do not exclude you or accuse You.
Instead, we invite you to join in with our sadness-
For certainly you nod along and agree
that this is not how things ought to be.
So teach us to lament, for it is faithful.
Teach us to mourn the pain here,
and to look ever more expectantly for Your return.
Teach us to ache for the Kingdom
and not for lesser things.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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