A Call to Lament Joel 1:13-20 “Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; And the living will take it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by a sad countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.” Those words from the wise man, Solomon, sound strange in our ears today. We live in a world that wants to eliminate all hardship, pain, and suffering. Families have their loved ones cremated so there’s […]
