Week 6: Chapter 5 — Enlarge Your Soul Through Grief and Loss

1.Scazzero opens by pointing out how poorly most of us — and most churches — handle grief and loss. What is the typical response to grief in church culture? What messages, spoken or unspoken, have you received about how quickly you should "get over" pain?

2.He introduces the Psalms of lament — nearly a third of the entire Psalter — as a divinely given language for honest grief before God. Were you aware that so much of Scripture is dedicated to lament? How does that fact reframe your understanding of what prayer can and should include?

3.Scazzero describes a "W" pattern in the lament psalms: they typically move from complaint to trust to praise and back again — not in a neat upward line. How does that pattern match or challenge your experience of moving through grief?