Finally, let me give you a word of caution. While you shouldn’t skip the practice of complaint, you also shouldn’t get stuck there either. Complaint was never meant to be an end in itself. In other words, lament does not give you an excuse to wallow in your questions or frustrations. It is a means to another end. In the same way a surgeon’s cut is meant to heal, so complaint is designed to move us along in our lament. You are not meant to linger in complaint. If you never move beyond complaint, lament loses its purpose and its power.
