{"id":9552,"date":"2025-09-27T22:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:19:48","slug":"lament-as-a-path-to-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9552","title":{"rendered":"Lament as a Path to Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vroegop1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vroegop1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vroegop1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vroegop1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might think lament is the opposite of praise.  It isn&#8217;t.  Instead, lament is a path to praise as we are led through our brokenness and disappointment.  The space between brokenness and God&#8217;s mercy is where this song is sung.  Think of lament as the transition between pain and promise.<\/p>\n<p>It is the path from heartbreak to hope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mark Vroegop, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45554\">Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy<\/a><\/em>, p. 28<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, August 9, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might think lament is the opposite of praise. It isn&#8217;t. Instead, lament is a path to praise as we are led through our brokenness and disappointment. The space between brokenness and God&#8217;s mercy is where this song is sung. Think of lament as the transition between pain and promise. It is the path from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-prayer","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9555,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions\/9555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}