Tears

"Grief, dear sisters, is good. Grief helps us heal our hearts. Why Jesus himself was a 'Man of sorrows and aquainted with grief' (Isa. 53:3 NKJV). Let the tears come. Get alone, get to your car or your bedroom or the shower and let the tears come. Let the tears come. It is the only kind thing to do for woundedness. Allow yourself to feel again. And feel you will -- many things. . . . In fact there is no emotion you can bring up that Jesus can't handle. (Look at the psalms -- they are a raging sea of emotions.) Let it all out. As Augustine wrote in his Confessions, ' The tears . . . streamed down, and I let them flow as freely as they would, making of them a pillow for my heart. On them it rested.' . . . Let the tears come."

~ from Capivating by John and Stasi Eldredge