Monday's Mourning Ministry - There You'll Be ~Faith Hill & Lamenting is Worship! ~Michael Card

Monday's Mourning Ministry


There You'll Be

~Faith Hill


and


Lamenting is Worship!

~Michael Card

Parts 6 & 7 (final parts)

There You'll Be

~Faith Hill

When I think back
On these times
And the dreams
We left behind
I'll be glad 'cause
I was blessed to get
To have you in my life
When I look back
On these days
I'll look and see your face
You were right there for me

[Chorus:]
In my dreams
I'll always see you soar
Above the sky
In my heart
There will always be a place
For you for all my life
I'll keep a part
Of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
And everywhere I am
There you'll be

Well you showed me
How it feels
To feel the sky
Within my reach
And I always
Will remember all
The strength you
Gave to me
Your love made me
Make it through
Oh, I owe so much to you
You were right there for me

[Repeat chorus]

'Cause I always saw in you
My light, my strength
And I want to thank you
Now for all the ways
You were right there for me
You were right there for me
For always

[Chorus:]
In my dreams
I'll always see you soar
Above the sky
In my heart
There will always be a place
For you for all my life
I'll keep a part
Of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
There you'll be

~






Lamenting is Worship!

~Michael Card

Part 6



~

Lamenting is Worship!

~Michael Card

Part 7 (Final)

Picture: ~Susie Pryor, "Her Magic"

Grief Video: http://youtu.be/qqr8EqZmyoQ

Lament Video #6: http://youtu.be/igg51L1tMAw

Lament Video #7: http://youtu.be/MwYsXe6BWeg

Saturday's Sadness - Lamenting at Easter: Lamenting is Worship! ~Michael Card

And having disarmed

the powers and authorities,

He made a public spectacle of them,

TRIUMPHING

over them by the

CROSS.

Colossians 2:15

Saturday's Sadness

Lamenting at Easter

Lamenting is Worship!

~Michael Card

Parts 3, 4, and 5

Lamenting is Worship! 

~Michael Card

Part 3

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Lamenting is Worship! 

~Michael Card

Part 4

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Lamenting is Worship! 

~Michael Card

Part 5

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To be continued...

~~~

Picture, thanks to 

RESSURECTION SUNDAY!!   Dianne Oehman   on Pinterest

Video #3:
http://youtu.be/FmsbTAg5Vk4

Video #4:
http://youtu.be/Ou17lPhzdAI

Video #5:
http://youtu.be/pXBNwDOMMaA

Friday's Faith - Good Friday - Lamenting is Worship, Parts 1 and 2 ~Michael Card

Friday's Faith

Good Friday

Lamenting is Worship,

Parts 1 and 2

~Michael Card

~Michael Card

Lamenting is Worship! 

Part 1

Uploaded on Feb 17, 2009:

Michael Card speaking at the East Coast Worship Summit this past summer in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Hear him lament about how most of the worship literature in the Bible is Lament worship, yet hardly any of our contemporary Christian worship music reflects that.

~~~

~Michael Card 

Lamenting is Worship! 

Part 2

Picture: Artist Danny Hahlbohm: "My son... My son", thanks to
Emerson for Adam  Sandra Ransom  on Pinterest
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/224335625162750338/

Videotaped by Steve Sterling. 
Thanks Steve and Michael for this affirming message for lamenters everywhere!

Lament Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr3mNGtxd-I

Lament Video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UUz7j7JQw

Monday's Mourning Ministry - Come Lift Up Your Sorrows ~Michael Card

Monday's Mourning Ministry

Come Lift Up Your Sorrows

~Michael Card

Come Lift Up Your Sorrows 

song (written, played and sung) 

by Michael Card 

and video created by Heather Gartshore

~~~

"This wailing is what is inside all us Child-Loss parents all the time..."

~Tommy Prince

~~~

If you are wounded

And if you're alone,

If you are angry,

If your heart is cold as stone,

If you have fallen,

And if you are weak,

Come find the Word of God

That only the suffering seek.

Come lift up your sorrows, 

And offer your pain. 

Come make a sacrifice of all your shame. 

There in your wilderness, 

He's waiting for you 

To worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too.

He has not stuttered

And He has not lied

When He said "Come unto Me,"

You're not disqualified;

When you're heavy laden,

You may want to depart

But those who know sorrow

They're closest to His heart.

Come lift up your sorrows, 

And offer your pain;

Come make a sacrifice of all your shame. 

There in your wilderness, 

He's waiting for you 

To worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too.

In this most holy place, 

He's made a sacred space

For those who will enter in

And trust to cry out to Him,

You'll find no curtain there,

No reason left for fear;

There's perfect freedom here

To weep every unwept tear.

Come lift up your sorrows, (Lift up your sorrows)

And offer your pain. (Offer your pain)

Come make a sacrifice 

Of all your shame. 

There in your wilderness, (There in your wilderness)

He's waiting for you (He's waiting for you)

To worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too.

(Come, come) Come lift up your sorrows, 

(Come bring your pain, oh yeah)

And offer your pain. (Come make a sacrifice)

Come make a sacrifice (Of all your shame)

Of all your shame. 

There in your wilderness,

He's waiting for you (He's waiting for you)

To worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too. (He's wounded too yeah)

Worship Him with your wounds, (all your wounds)

For He's wounded too.

Come worship Him with your wounds, 

For He's wounded too.

Grief Video: http://youtu.be/TciR2ITXbaY

Friday's Faith - The Cry of "Why?" IS the Cry of Faith ~with H. Norman Wright and Michael Card

Friday's Faith

The Cry of "Why?" IS the Cry of Faith

~with H. Norman Wright

and Michael Card

The cry of why is a cry of lament. This cry is good. It is necessary. It is a cry of protest to God, but also a cry of faith. Michael Card's book, A Sacred Sorrow, describes how lament is a biblical pattern for our lives. He states:

"When then, does God enshrine so many laments in His Word? Laments, we must realize are God's Word. Why are so many Biblical characters shown as disappointed and angry with God? Do we seek to learn from all the other facets of their lives but this? I would put it to you this way:

People like Job, David, Jeremiah, and even Jesus revealed to us that prayers of complaint can still be prayers of faith.

They represent the last refusal to let go of the God who may seem to be absent or worse--uncaring.

If this is true, then lament expresses one of the most intimate moments of faith--not a denial of it.

"It is supreme honesty before a God who my faith tells me I can trust. He encourages me to bring everything as an act of worship, my disappointment, frustration, and even my hate. Only lament uncovers this kind of new faith, a biblical faith that better understands God's heart as it is revealed through Jesus Christ."

He also talks about the purpose of lamenting:

"What lament would have us understand: the answer is graciously being given. His Presence is always with us.

Lament is the path that takes us to the place where we discover that there is no complete answer to pain and suffering, only Presence.

"The language of lament gives a meaningful form to our grief by providing a vocabulary for our suffering and then offering it to God as worship. Our questions and complaints will never find individual answers (even Job's questions were never fully answered). The only Answer is the dangerous, disturbing, comforting Presence, which is the true answer to all our questions and hopes."

~H. Norman Wright, Helping Those in Grief

~Michael Card, A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God and the Lost Language of Lament

picture: "Jesus at the Garden of Gethsemane" from AllPosters.com