A sacred sorrow
Subtitle: reaching out to God in the lost language of lament
By: Michael Card.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: NavPress
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Colorado Springs, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Consolation; Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Laments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-202).
Table of contents: title: The path of sovereign sorrow; title: A difficult hope; title: Wilderness worth-ship; title: Lost in a green desert; title: The danger of defiance; title: New light on an incomplete equation; title: A new and truer worship; title: The frustrated lamenter; title: The exhausted mystic; title: Hunger-born songs of intimacy; title: A life fashioned for lament; title: Enemies and "the poison we drink"; title: Disease and death; title: No hope but this : contrition; title: A difficult hope; title: Dark, familiar echoes; title: Torn between two loves; title: Lamentations : the destruction of Jeremiah; title: Truth held together; title: Hesed in-fleshed; title: God's presence "with us"; title: The God-forsaken God; title: The lost language of lament.