Introduction: Life in a Minor Key

Foreword / Joni Eareckson Tada

Introduction : Life in a minor key : a personal journey

Part one : Learning to lament : psalms of lament. Keep turning to prayer : Psalm 77

Bring your complaints : Psalm 10

Ask boldly : Psalm 22

Choose to trust : Psalm 13

Part two : Learning from lament : Lamentations. A broken world and a holy God : Lamentations 1-2

Hope springs from truth rehearsed : Lamentations 3

Unearthing idols : Lamentations 4

A roadmap to grace : Lamentations 5

Part three : Living with lament : personal and community applications. Making lament personal

Let us lament

Conclusion : Dark clouds, deep mercy : the journey ahead

Appendixes. Twenty complaints

Psalms of lament

Learning-to-lament worksheet

But, yet, and.