My HEART hurts,
as LIFE has a way of HURTING HEARTS.
SUDDENLY
your LIFE can change,
in a dramatic way.
A friend's husband
SUDDENLY passes from this LIFE.
A friend gets health test results,
that may have revealed cancer.
Friends who miss their children,
who have been in heaven.
Another friend is fighting the cancer battle.
Another friend is lonely.
Another friend is watching her friend
taking his last breaths.
Another friend
is watching her family fall apart.
Families are estranged.
As I know too well.
My HEART hurts,
for my HEART and for so many other HEARTS.
LIFE HAPPENS WHEN WHAT YOU HAVE PLANNED HAS CHANGED.
My HEART hurts BIG.
But TEARS release the HURT.
TEARS can be overwhelming,
yet so freeing,
when you allow your
HEART to
MAKE TEARS,
so that you
CRY
and
MOURN,
when
BROKENNESS comes your way.
No one is exempt from TEARS,
even JESUS.
Oh HE shed them.
One. Two. Three.
To the ONE who would catch each and every one of them~
"While HE lived on earth,
anticipating death,
JESUS cried out in pain
and wept in sorrow as
HE offered up priestly prayers to GOD
Because HE honored GOD, GOD answered HIM"
And what was one of the prayers of JESUS?
A PRAYER OF TEARS
that oozed from HIS whole body~
"And being in agony [deeply distressed and anguished;
almost to the point of death],
HE prayed more intently; and HIS sweat became like drops of blood,
falling down on the ground"
(Luke 22:44).
JESUS FEELS YOUR TEARS
because
JESUS MADE TEARS.
"I MADE TEARS"
are the words from
the mouth of our precious grandson,
years ago,
after his first day of pre-school.
Missing his mommy & daddy
in a new environment
he told them~
"I MADE TEARS".
Oh how this pierces my heart,
as doesn't it yours,
as can't you relate?
It doesn't take much,
when your heart wants to talk,
yet all you can do is
MAKE TEARS~
the release of your heart cries
of what you are deeply feeling in the moment.
Or maybe you don't
MAKE TEARS,
but really want to,
yet are afraid to
because if you did
you would really have to feel what you are feeling.
We all have them
tucked inside,
that we hold back at times
when we don't want to feel
what our heart wants to cry.
I MADE TEARS~
To feel the pain,
the anguish,
the sorrow & grief
and just let it flow.
What if you stopped for a moment
to feel what you may be afraid to feel,
and become that vulnerable
so that you could and would be
just like
JESUS
because
HE made TEARS~
"JESUS WEPT"
(John 11:35).
The shortest verse in the bible,
yet so powerful
because
THE ONE
who is your strength in the midst of our weakness,
feels your weakness
because
JESUS MADE TEARS.
And one day,
TEARS will be something of the past
that you or I will never have to make because of the
ONE WHO WEPT~
"HE will wipe away every tear from their eyes;
and there will no longer be any death;
there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain;
the first things have passed away"
(Revelation 21:4).
Oh my friend
MAKE TEARS
and RELEASE all the BROKENNESS
that may be on your HEART,
so that
THE ONE WHO WEPT
will swoop in
and meet you right where you are
and fill you with
MORE OF HIM.
For TEARS are TEMPORARY~.
"For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor and an endless blessedness]!
So we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are unseen; for the things which are visible are temporal [just brief and fleeting],
but the things which are invisible are everlasting and imperishable"
(2 Corinthians 4: 17-18).
Therefore,
"LOOK UP CHILD"
(listen to the song below)
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