I love the way Ann Voskamp, in her book One Thousand Gifts, summarizes the difference between lament and complaint: “Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father’s heart.”31
