From “Telling Stories in the Dark: Finding healing and hope in sharing our sadness, grief, trauma, and pain” by Jeffrey Munroe
Nick was indeed wounded by the loss of Eric, but through Lament for a Son and his willingness to speak over the decades of his particular experience of grief, Nicholas Wolterstorff has been an agent of love, compassion, and mercy in our broken and battered world. At the end of Lament, he notes, “That the radiance which emerges from acquaintance with grief is a blessing to others is familiar, though perplexing: How can we treasure the radiance while struggling against what brought it about? How can we thank God for suffering’s yield, while asking for its removal?”