Spotify Playlists

Music, like grief and feelings, can be deeply personal. Please regard these merely as offerings. Like everything else connected to engaging lament and hope, we encourage skipping over, saving for later, and leaving behind what doesn’t serve you. If words and music reach you where needed, sit with them. If they don’t, feel free to leave them behind. There is no need to assign meaning. Simply let them (and you) be.

“The hopeful news is that we haven’t utterly forgotten the power of lament even if some of us have rarely called it by that name. Many listen to sad music or watch movies telling stories of pain and loss when we’re sad not to make ourselves more unhappy but intuitively knowing they are ways of expressing our grief. Psychologists Liila Taruffi and Stefan Koelsch found that listening to sad music helps people process memories, regulate negative moods, and activate empathy.” (from Hopeful Lament, chapter 3)