First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/merry-christmas-o-holy-night-a-lament/ We at SureHope Counseling & Training Center want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas! For the year of 2024, SureHope Counseling & Training Center has focused on the process of lamenting. We have…
Lamenting Holidays Past
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/lamenting-holidays-past/ I don’t know anyone who is free from pain as we look forward to Christmas and the New Year. Many people I care for are shouldering significant burdens, and the holiday season intensifies their heartache. Why…
Ashes to Beauty: Lament to Thanksgiving
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/ashes-to-beauty-lament-to-thanksgiving/ Thanksgiving is a perspective. Not a set of circumstances. This year at SureHope we have focused on the spiritual and psychological benefits of lamenting. The amazing aspect about lamenting is when we practice lamenting, we are…
Lament: A Powerful Prayer Blueprint That Brings Comfort in Times of Trouble
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/lament-a-powerful-prayer-blueprint-that-brings-comfort-in-times-of-trouble/ In times of trouble, we seek out safety and security. There is safety in being heard; we feel a bit more grounded and understood when someone listens to our pain. First let me say, it would…
Change the Script: Transforming Your Thought Life Through Lament
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/change-the-script-transforming-your-thought-life-through-lament/ Do you ever give much thought to the voice inside your head? I’m talking about the script that so often seems to run on auto pilot and provides an endless flow of messages in which we…
Is It Grumbling or Lamenting?
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/is-it-grumbling-or-lamenting/ “God is our refuge and strength, An ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way And the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, Though its waters roar and…
Let the Little Children Come: Childhood Lament
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/let-the-little-children-come-childhood-lament/ Have you ever been taken aback by a child’s brutal honesty? Perhaps a comment about your wrinkles or the way you smell, or even a wiser observation about your mood or way of being. I think…
Blessed are Those Who Lament
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/blessed-are-those-who-lament/ The upside-down Kingdom of Jesus is one that leaves many of us scratching our heads in confusion. Jesus has a lot to say about how to live in the Kingdom of God and what a life…
Lamenting in Marriage
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/lamenting-in-marriage/ Marriage, in its purest form, is a lifelong, covenant relationship between one man, one woman, and God. It is meant to be a loving, intimate, and selfless relationship that involves spiritual, emotional, and physical closeness. The…
The Prayer of an Aged Believer: Psalm 71
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/the-prayer-of-an-aged-believer-psalm-71/ Most Bible commentators believe this is a psalm of David and is his prayer and trust in God during his later years under the crisis of his son Absalom’s rebellion. Since there is no title and…
Are You a Good Complainer?
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/are-you-a-good-complainer/ At first glance complaining appears to be nothing but negative. If someone were to put a glass of water in front of you filled up halfway, what would you see? Would you see a glass half…
How Lamenting Leads to Spiritual and Mental Growth
First posted to: https://surehopecounseling.com/how-lamenting-leads-to-spiritual-and-mental-growth/ When practicing the skill of lamenting it leads to spiritual and mental growth. You may be asking how is this so? To engage in lamenting, you eventually start to answer certain questions that tell you where…