Hailey Gursoy’s Reviews > The Louder Song: Listening for Hope in the Midst of Lament > Status Update

Not even done with this book and I already want to re-read it. I hope everyone would read this book. It contains powerful truths.

“In the darkness we have a choice that is not really there in better times. We can choose to serve God just because he is God… If we do that—we are finally learning to love God for himself, and not for his benefits.” - Timothy Keller

“All laments lead to the truest form of worship—the worship of God alone”

“Sometimes affairs aren’t with other people. Sometimes the occur with the fantasy version of oneself..”

“…in order to move through our pain, we need to create space to grieve our disrupted futures… we need to lament our what-could-have-beens… our what-might-have-been are very real losses.”

“Thankfully, painful season don’t allow for masquerading.”
It feels like pain pushes us into the light.

“Even he who despairs is within range of God’s ear!”

“That’s when we have to learn to lean into our lament muscles, to speak the weight of this sad time, to declare to God the absence of his shalom and remind him of the promises of his wholeness and newness. To lament is to speak the reality of our formless, chaotic suffering and to ask God to fill it with his very good.”

“…we don’t have to fear expressing the whole gamut of emotions to God, because that is part of a covenantal relationship with him.”

“He not only permits lament; he gives us the language of lament…. We have a groom who gives his bride a voice.”

“In a world full of hate, abuse, and a game change, God doesn’t avoid or ignore pain. He sings a louder song over it. And he invites his hurting people to sing with him.”

“Suffering is an invitation to stop pretending, to stop avoiding, to let go of control, to pour out our hearts, to lament to God.”

I feel like this book is going to wreck me emotionally (and probably spiritually)