Tears

Tears seem to be something that we all dread.  I, for one, hate tears, but I have an overabundance of them.   Do we dread them because they are there due to pain or that they make us appear weak?  I believe that tears are an unspoken language that the whole world can understand.  We understand tears by the actions of the person before the tears begin.

When a person laughs so hard that they cry, we know that the person thought something was funny.  If a person hits his thumb with a hammer and cries, we know that it was a very painful hit.  If a person hears sad news and the tears flow down his face, we know that the person is sad.  If we attend a funeral and do not know what words to say, a hand clasp, a hug and tears tell the person that we grieve with him or her.

So for those of us, who seem to have an abundance of emotions shown by tears, please don’t dread them.  God made us that way and tears can say just the right “words” to the person who sees them and wants to understand them.