I’ve been doing some random studies on Lament recently, so this series of posts caught my eye: Looking at Lamentations, from Everyday Liturgy. If you’ve never thought about Lament and its role in worship, it’s a good place to start:
God didn’t have to make us his daughters and sons, but he has—and now we can call to our Father in distress. As we experience weariness and pain in a sin-marred world, God shares our weariness and our anger, and when we protest sin and injustice, and appeal to his covenant—we are behaving as his faithful children.
