Sep 30, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
In this Oak Hill College Chapel talk, speaker Blessing Chishanu preaches from Lamentations 3:19–33. Rather than rushing past pain or sanitising grief, biblical lament invites us to face tragedy…
In his book, Dark Clouds and Deep Mercy, Mark Vrogel, Exploring Lament, writes, while attending a meeting at a Christian conference center, I noticed a picture on the wall.
It featured a painted scene of a small English cottage tucked between two mountains with a flowing stream.
It resembled a Thomas Kinkard painting with pastel colors and soft lines and a bright sky, the kind of art you find in a Christian bookstore.
This soothing refuge would become a place I'd love to visit, so to speak, one of peace and tranquility.
Below the painting were the words of Lamentations chapter 3, verse 22 to 23.
You see, the artist sets these beautiful words against an equally beautiful landscape.
But Lamentations gives us a different portrait, a very, very different portrait.
And so in a very real sense, this poet's funeral lament for a city whose glory has faded confronts us.
In his book, Dark Clouds and Deep Mercy, Mark Vrogel, Exploring Lament, writes, while attending a meeting at a Christian conference center, I noticed a picture on the wall.
It featured a painted scene of a small English cottage tucked between two mountains with a flowing stream.
It resembled a Thomas Kinkard painting with pastel colors and soft lines and a bright sky, the kind of art you find in a Christian bookstore.
This soothing refuge would become a place I'd love to visit, so to speak, one of peace and tranquility.
Below the painting were the words of Lamentations chapter 3, verse 22 to 23.
You see, the artist sets these beautiful words against an equally beautiful landscape.
But Lamentations gives us a different portrait, a very, very different portrait.
And so in a very real sense, this poet's funeral lament for a city whose glory has faded confronts us.
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