Learning to Lament

When all around you seems hopeless and lost, drought-stricken and barren, when you go looking for fig on the branch or grape on the vine, and there's nothing, can you still have joy? Have you learned the secret of this sort of faith? How do we get this? Where does it come from? In the opening verses, Habakkuk might not show us the full picture, but he does show us where to begin: with lamenting.