From Lament to Grief

Lament is to deeply relate to, empathize for, have pit pity with, and emote with a person or situation that is going thought hardship, suffering, or injustice.  It is compassionate, caring, and consuming…

Grief is deeply personal, experientially first hand,  all consuming, irrational, inconsolable, thick, dark and clingy.  It is not linear.

I find it hard to move from lament to grief if I have not experienced trauma personally, however it is is essential that we at least start with lament to relate to other’s grief or injustice to be a catalyst for change.