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Sweet Speakable Sorrow

the cultivation of spiritual complaint

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Hi! I’m Tricia, my mother’s daughter.
ALS / Family / Grief / Jesus / Lou Gehrig's Disease / Susan's Steps

Hi! I’m Tricia, my mother’s daughter.

November 25, 2023November 26, 2024

Hi! Welcome to Sweet Speakable Sorrow. My name is Tricia, and I am my mother’s daughter. The day my mom, Susan Catlett, died, I removed her blog, Susan’s […]

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#1 The ALS Journey
ALS / Family / Grief / Jesus / Lou Gehrig's Disease / Outings / Susan's Steps

#1 The ALS Journey

June 3, 2022November 26, 2024

Susan Catlett

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"Life is unspeakably sad until you recover the lost language of lament. Then it becomes 'speakably' sad and an authentic journey into His presence begins."

Larry Crabb, quoted in A Sacred Sorrow by Michael Card

Welcome to Sweet Speakable Sorrow! If you are here, you may wonder why anyone would want to think about grief or suffering, let alone talk about it. Yet, God is a God who hears us in our sorrow and longs for us to bring our complaints to Him. Sweet Speakable Sorrow is a home where I learned, as taught to me by my mother, to appreciate and cultivate the language of sorrow and give it back to God in praise.

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"Life is unspeakably sad until you recover the lost language of lament. Then it becomes 'speakably' sad and an authentic journey into His presence begins."

Larry Crabb, quoted in A Sacred Sorrow by Michael Card

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