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Lament as spiritual practice

Lament as spiritual practice honors grief, anger, and protest as legitimate forms of prayer rather than obstacles to faith, drawn from biblical psalms and cross-cultural traditions that give suffering a voice. It recognizes that authentic spirituality must include the refusal to pretend everything is acceptable, creating space for the full range of human response to injustice and loss.

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