{"id":9803,"date":"2026-07-11T17:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9803"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:15:28","slug":"the-grace-of-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9803","title":{"rendered":"The Grace of Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vroegop4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vroegop4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vroegop4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vroegop4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vroegop4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vroegop4-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vroegop4-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aim of this book has been to help you discover the grace of lament.  When dark clouds roll in, lament is the path to find mercy &#8211; even as the clouds linger.  Lament is the bridge between dark clouds and deep mercy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mark Vroegop, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45554\">Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy<\/a><\/em>, p. 190<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  Mont Saint-Michel, France, June 17, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of this book has been to help you discover the grace of lament. When dark clouds roll in, lament is the path to find mercy &#8211; even as the clouds linger. Lament is the bridge between dark clouds and deep mercy. &#8212; Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy, p. 190 Photo: Mont Saint-Michel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,57,18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-grace","category-prayer","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","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=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}