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Becoming Exiles
Lamentations 1.1-6 and Psalm 137
Part three of a six part series on the Prophets
October 2, 2016
The images in this PowerPoint were accessed on 29 September 2016 at
www.bing.com
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Jerusalem’s elegy of pain | Lamentations 1.1-6
The reality of political and spiritual disaster
Part funeral dirge and part communal lament
Lamentations is comprised of five poems, four of which are acrostics
Lamentations 1 is the poem of the widow in mourning…The people of God overcome with miseryGod is quiet
Aleppo, Syria: Before and After (2016)Slide3
The deported’s
elegy of anger | Psalm 137
The meaning of loss in the Ancient Near East
The pain of music
The agony of memoryThe desire for revenge against the neighborsThe horrible confidence of judgement against the empire
Margrit Prigge,
Psalm 137
Watercolor
(South Africa)Slide4
“Torn and Frayed”
Coming to terms with the coming and present exile
The crash of the church, the end of the empire…becoming a minority in a plural culture
Coming to terms with pain - Adjusting to new realities
Coming to terms with anger - Sustaining and refocusing
Creating a new witness – Listening for the Quiet God
Recovery of the prophetic – Turing Hot Anger into Cold Fury
Hope, not in dashboard measurements, but in the strength of the Spirit
The Rolling Stones, “
Exile on
M
ain Street
” (album cover), 1972Slide5
For Further Reflection…
Will we resist exile by making toxic choices or will the exile provide us new paths…?
What can exile teach us if we are ready to learn?
Where could exile take us if we are ready to be present?
How might exile sustain us if we are ready to listen?Who will exile show us if we are ready to look?Slide6
One More Thing.
Well his coat is torn and frayed,
It`s seen much better days.
Just as long as the guitar plays
Let it steal your heart away, Let it steal your heart away.
Chorus, “
Torn and Frayed
” from the album,
Exile on Main Street
(1972). The Rolling Stones. Music and Lyrics by M. Jagger and K. Richards