relationships and community on Tears

God of our hearts, Lord of nations and Creator of worlds; Father, Son and Holy Spirit: When You redeemed us and called us each by name, You made us a family—united by your love and grace. Across towns...

Compassionate God—In Christ, you enter our condition; you experience our sorrow and our joy ... and redeem them. By Your Holy Spirit, you carry us along: in crisis and celebration, in despair and acco...

Leader: Come, and worship the Lord, who fills mouths with laughter and tongues with shouts of joy. People: The Lord has done great things for us, and so we rejoice. Leader: May those who sow in te...

Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

No sorrowful tears, no beating of the breast For a safe repose has taken me. I dance Ring dances with the blessed saints In the beautiful fields of the righteous.

Weeping is perhaps the most human and universal of all relief measures.

I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.