Embodied Hope Quotes

“Our failure to practice lament during such times may also display our inability to recognize that what happens to our bodies also affects our relationships.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“The real problem is that this devaluing of lament often betrays our failure to admit that our suffering is real and painful. Our”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Beloved, amid the trials and tribulations of life, let us have confidence not in ourselves, not in our own efforts, but in God. This God has come in Christ, and he has overcome sin, death, and the devil. While we may currently be walking through the shadow of death, may our God’s love, grace, and compassion become ever more real to us. And may we, as the church, participate in the ongoing divine motions and movements of grace as God meets people in their need.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Confession, however, heals both the individual and the community. This usually does not mean that we must confess all our sins to the whole community—there are good reasons to avoid that. As a general rule, our confession ought to be as public as our sin.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Some psychological models of Christian spirituality fall short when they focus all of their attention on a person’s internal landscape, failing to fully appreciate that the Christian life is one of embodied relationships. What is happening and will happen with our bodies is crucial to who we are and what God is doing.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“What is so remarkable about this book is how God graciously allows so much space for the laments and struggles, not jumping in to swat Job down nor simply yelling from the heavens the right answers to all of his questions. God, it appears, is okay with giving us time to wrestle, not only with other people but even with God himself.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Careful reading of the text shows far more complexity, richness, and theological depth than any flat reading can accommodate. It realistically examines human struggle in the context of persistent faith. It offers no simple answers, no easy formulas, but genuine wrestling and struggle.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“As time moves on, we expect the wounded person to get better; we expect their frustrations and questions to turn into stoic acceptance. We expect denial or victory—ongoing struggle is the option we are most uncomfortable with, yet that is exactly where most who live with ongoing pain and suffering actually are.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Hope does not rule out the need for mourning in our lives but rather demands it, because our hope itself tells us that our brokenness is wrong.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Our hope is in him who made and redeemed heaven and earth, not in our own intellectual acuity.”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“The real problem is that this devaluing of lament often betrays our failure to admit that our suffering is real and painful. Our failure to practice lament during such times may also display our inability to recognize that what happens to our bodies also affects our relationships. The human experience requires lament, at”
― Kelly M. Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Benevolence and truth are meant to nourish one another, not to serve as two distinct options. When”
― Kelly M Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“it does not mean that we can substitute theoretical reasoning for justified lament.”
― Kelly M Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Such explanations assume that some good outcome can nullify or justify the pain, but this is not so. A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We”
― Kelly M Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We”
― Kelly M Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Christians responded with a set of practices and ways of living together with grace, solidarity, and promise amid the pain. These”
― Kelly M Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

“Don’t Answer Why”
― Kelly M Kapic, Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering