Wailing: Pregnant with Hope

Journeying and Journaling with God

Wailing: Pregnant with Hope

Note: At the end of each chapter of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting, I include two reflection/action sections. One is Your Journey and one is Your Journal. Today, I’m sharing a few sample Wailing Journey and Journal interactions to help you on your path of grief and growth—of finding God’s healing hope.

Your Wailing Journey

1. When are you most tempted to deaden the pain of life? How do you defeat this temptation so you’re able to groan to God?

2. The temptation when life beats us down is to refuse to face life anymore. We barely survive, rather than victoriously thrive. How can you victoriously thrive?

Your Wailing Journal

1. God made you a longing, thirsting, hungering, desiring being. What God-designed thirst is your loss stirring up in your soul?

2. Groaning exposes us for the needy people we are. How hard is it for you to admit your neediness—to yourself, to others, and to God?

3. Read and meditate upon Philippians 1:23-25. Paul says that he longs for heaven, but that he’s passionate about staying on earth in order to glorify God and benefit others. What would it look like in your grieving to apply this passage to your life?

4. God calls you to keep longing for Paradise while still pulling weeds even while you live east of Eden. What weeds is God calling you to pull?

Join the Conversation

Which of the interactions/questions/reflections most resonate with you?