A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament (Quiet Times for the Heart)

The path of sovereign sorrow -- A difficult hope -- Wilderness worth-ship -- Lost in a green desert -- The danger of defiance -- New light on an incomplete equation -- A new and truer worship -- The frustrated lamenter -- The exhausted mystic -- Hunger-born songs of intimacy -- A life fashioned for lament -- Enemies and "the poison we drink"--Disease and death -- No hope but this : contrition -- A difficult hope -- Dark, familiar echoes -- Torn between two loves -- Lamentations : the destruction of Jeremiah -- Truth held together -- Hesed in-fleshed -- God's presence "with us" -- The God-forsaken God -- The lost language of lament