our pain for us (Rom 8:26–27). Laments are not failures of faith; they embody faith. We can cry out to God from the depths of our sorrow and pain believing that God will hear us, that Jesus is with us in our suffering, and that God’s spirit groans on our behalf when the pain is unbearable. The classic five-stage model of grief proposed by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) and the more recent six “R” processes of mourning put forward by Therese Rando (recognize