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Written by Joyce Often
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 |
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Sorrowing With Hope I cry in private, I cry alone. The tears are not always those warm and comforting ones that bring solace. They sometimes are those of anger, shouting out against injustice and the sore trials of life, sometimes those of raging against the world and sometimes those of self-pity. They are sad tears and angry tears and even tears of joy. I do not often share them with the world. But tears they are. Whether public or private, tears are an honest expression of grief. They are God's gift and not to be denied. In my tears and grief, I question, search and grow. I cannot do it with dishonesty and denial. God is in my tears and in my sorrow as well as in my joy and my hope. God is there to shower down love and to soften the pain. Do not ask me to deny my tears. Allow them to wash my inner wounds and speed the healing of my heart. I claim the privilege of tears, for God has not asked me to do otherwise. He has promised to be with me always, even in my tears. -Joyce Often, TCF, Colorado Springs, CO
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