First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Evening Service

That’s the beginning of the book, Lament for a Son, written by Nicholas Wolterstorff who was a former philosophy professor at Yale University. But he writes the book not as a scholar; he writes the book as a loving father. He writes the book for his twenty-five year old son who died mountain climbing in Austria. And he calls the book his lament - Lament for a Son. His expression of sadness, this prayer of mourning for his late son, Eric. And as you continue reading you can hear the sadness in this father’s words. He says, “There is a hole in the world now. In the place where Eric was, there is now just nothing. There is nobody who saw just what he saw, who knows what he knew, who remembers what he remembered, who loves what he loved. My son is gone. Only a hole remains.”