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I laid on my mat, in the dark, absolutely crying my eyes out. I remember actually choking as I sobbed as silently as I could. Praying simply that the wind in the tent would silence whatever noise I was making.

This experience is a perfect example of how I interacted with my tears. I thought of them as something to remain hidden, in a dark tent, ready to wake up the next morning and pretend like nothing happened.

But tears are not meant to be hidden. Tears are a gift.

We often compare tears to sin. After all, In heaven there will be no more and the fact that they weren't mentioned in the garden of Eden does look an awful lot like what we see God do to sin.

But if we look at the fact that Jesus was incapable of sin, and that the bible mentions him crying several times we have to acknowledge the truth. Tears are a gift.

They come when you are at the end of yourself. When you can do nothing more. When you can't witness to that person anymore. When you can't take the pain. When you love someone so much you can't contain it. When you have come to your limit.

They are prayer on the other side of words.

They are a literal overflow of the heart to the Father. There are many different types of tears but ultimately they are huge emotions, and if our hearts are on Christ, those emotions will be God honoring.

They are a way of communicating that cannot be duplicated or understood without effort.

And God promises to understand them (Isaiah 38:4). He sees them whether we cry in a dark tent, or in a group of people. And he promises to remember them, possibly the most intimate expression of our emotions.

You wanna know the really cool part about tears?

God designed them in such a way where they trigger a release of leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller. Meaning simply this- tears are a gift.

But they are only given to us on earth. In Revelation 21:4 God says that there will be no more crying. We are on the clock with this gift as with so many others. So always remember that they are A gift given for a time, not to be hidden away by our fear of showing that we have emotions.

If you liked what you read please consider reading our post on emotions : https://guardianangels3746.wixsite.com/4046/post/emotions-what-water-is-to-paper-and-a-wall-too

For more information on this topic I suggest that you listen to this podcast on tears. - https://open.spotify.com/track/5dJJ9OhfFomfBzHJDyXWA0?si=ibtRtOXRTnufQKdDkZ5WvA

Referenced: The gift of tears - Corey Russell

Many hours of conversation with Alex.

Scripture for further reading:

-Psalm 6:6

-John 11:35

-Isaiah 53:3

-Psalm 56:8

-Luke 19:41

-Hebrews 5:7

-Isaiah 38:3