Learn Again to Lament

Because it's in the midst of our trials and singing our own lamentations that we learn best how to comfort other hurting hearts, to show our children that true Christianity requires many sessions in the school of affliction, and to clothe ourselves in compassion and mercy to minister to those who don't know Jesus.

"...let us learn once again to lament. Read the Psalms over and over until you have the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax necessary to lay your heart before God in lamentation. If you do this, you will have the resources to cope with your own times of suffering, despair and heartbreak, and to keep worshipping and trusting through even the blackest of days; you will also develop a greater understanding of fellow Christians whose agonies of, say, bereavement, depression, or despair , sometimes make it difficult for them to prance around in ecstasy singing 'Jesus wants me for a sunbeam' on a Sunday morning; and you will have more credible things to say to those shattered and broken individuals--be they burned-out bank managers or down-and-out-junkies--to whom you may be called to be a witness of God's unconditional mercy and grace to the unloved and the unlovely. For such, as the Bible might put it, were some of you..."
~Carl Trueman, The Wages of Spin
"What Can Miserable Christians Sing"