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We’ve relegated God’s life in us to special times and places and states of mind... When we think of “taking Christ into the workplace” or “keeping Christ in the home,” we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The “specialness” of such acts just underscores the point—that being a Christian, being Christ’s, isn’t thought of as a normal part of life.

Human life cannot flourish as God intended it to, in a divinely inspired and upheld corporate rule over this grand globe, if we see ourselves as “on our own”—and especially if we struggle to preserve ourselves that way. When we are in isolation from God and not in the proper social bonds with others, we cannot rule the earth for good

This is a powerful book!

These elements include: (1) an address to God; (2) a pouring out of our suffering to God; (3) a request to God to alleviate the suffering; (4) and last but not least, an expression of trust in God.4 This trajectory involves a transformative psychological shift from distress to praise.

Lament is not merely pouring out our heart to God, nor is it merely complaining or venting.
Instead, lament has a specific structure. It's a stylized form of speech consisting of common elements that define a specific trajectory.

Really good so far!

Your life is a good gift from a loving God, even when subjectively it doesn’t feel good or like a gift, even when you doubt God is loving, please get out of bed anyway.

Don't do the next thing so that you can just keep doing the next thing. Do the next thing because it honors God and testifies of His goodness and the goodness of your life to your neighbor.

The most fundamental decision is the decision to get out of bed. It communicates Something. The decision to live It is the claim that life is worth living despite the risk and uncertainty and the inevitability of suffering.