Lament is how we endure. It is how we trust. It is how we wait. Rebekah Eklund provides this helpful summary: “The prayer of lament rejoices in God’s saving actions in the now and hopes urgently for God’s saving actions in the future, the ‘not yet’ of the eschatological timeline. . . . Those who lament stand on the boundary between the old age and the new and hope for things unseen.”7
