Sacred Tears
I hope for relief, as pain leaks out of my eyes. I am embarrassed that I can’t overcome my
emotions, but even Jesus wept. He wept
with abandon over the death of Lazarus even though He knew he would soon raise
him from the dead. So then why the guilt over tears?
These tears spilling down my cheeks represent a love, a statement of my
loss. They reveal my humanity, my
frailty but also my hope. For every tear
that falls there is a release of pain. The
pain spills down my face, races down my neck and reveals my heart….There is
hope in sight, one less tear is yet to fall.
The count of tears that the Lord keeps is being added to and it simply must
stand to reason that I am clearly filling up my bottle. At some point no more tears will fall. It won’t be soon, in fact it won’t be in this
lifetime at all. We will all continue to
reveal our humanity in tears as we suffer in this world. These wet, little tiny messengers will reveal
to the world that we have sorrow and we have compassion. We will invite others into our tears and
sometimes we will join in others tears, it is called the fellowship of
suffering. It is humanity at its best,
if we do it well. If we will invite
others into that sacred place of tears and fears, and if we will not run from
that place when we see others struggling there.
These sacred tears can be shared tears filled with hope as we walk this
journey together with our eyes on heaven.
I am not hopeless because I know that the God of hope has
assured me of this….
Revelation 21:3-4
(ASV)
3 And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and
they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their
God: 4 and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no
more; neither shall there be mourning,
nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
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