Sow in Tears

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Sometimes, I weep for what was.

I wish I could roll back the clock and revise a tragic day in my family’s history.

I cry out for restoration as salty tears stream down my face.

I am thankful for that sweet Scripture that says God collects all my tears in a bottle.

I am comforted when I read that Jesus wept for a friend.

I’ve surrendered to the reality that God has given me a ministry of tears.

One glorious day, my Jesus will wipe all my tears away.

In the meantime, it’s okay to be a weeping willow.

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Dr. Elmer Towns suggests that we only cry when we lose something precious to us. In How to Pray: When You Don’t Know What to Say, he asks his readers to note the last time they cried over a lost person or a a personal sin. Tears of loss help define our “spiritual temperature.”

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If you immerse yourself in the Gospels, they will cure you of the “stiff-upper-lip” religion that is so foreign to the one who was a “man of sorrows acquainted with grief.” Jesus knew the Prayer of Tears, and He will show you how to follow “in His steps.”

Richard Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, p. 45

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Lord, may we be refreshed as by streams in the desert.

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Let’s Talk: Have your tears dried up or are you a weeping willow? How do we keep a tender heart?

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Let’s Pray Big in Community:

This year, my desire is to lift up holy hands and “Pray Big.” Want to join me? I’ve created a private “Pray Big” Facebook group for like-minded sisters to share their stories and surrender each one to our mountain-moving God in prayer. Let’s cry out to God together.