Into the Light: Finding Hope Through Prayers of Lament

By P. Lynn Miller 

Suggestions for Leaders by Dee Koza

Welcome to the 2020–2021 Presbyterian Women/Horizons Bible study, Into the Light: Finding Hope Through Prayers of Lament. In this nine-lesson study, Lynn Miller revives lament as a proper theological response to the difficult situations of our world. One of the foundational points of the study is that, in scripture, lament usually leads to hope. After crying out to God, the one who laments remembers God. And while that doesn’t fix things in the moment—the injustice, the loss still exists—the lamenter is strengthened to face the world and to hope. And for us as Christians, hope is not just an emotional response or an attitude of pie in the sky. Hope implies movement: both God’s inherent movement toward justice and our movement toward God. Recovering lament may be one of the church’s most timely gifts to the world.

Click here to read Laments created by Into the Light Bible Study readers

Download instructions for video sharing on Zoom.

Video recording of the Into the Light webinar presented by Lynn Miller

Q&As and other resources from the Into the Light webinar

Video recording of the Into the Light MUSIC webinar

Slides and handouts from the Into the Light MUSIC webinar

Songs of Lament playlist on Spotify