Lament is the ancient practice of recognizing the brokenness of the soul and then mustering the courage to embrace it before God.

Lament is an act of love-recognizing that in order to truly love, one must be truly honest.

Denial is simply a way of hiding.

Love does not hide, not even those parts of us that are ugly and sick, not even the words that are hard to say-and even harder to hear.

When we claim to 'love', we are also claiming to be 'honest', even when it may hurt the one we profess 'love' to.

Question: Am I capable of love?

Let us journey on... honestly...