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The Mystery of Tears
by Lewis McNeely on Wednesday, Jun 16th, 2010 at 11:19 am
A few nights ago I had a cool dream. In it I visited a pond situated near my childhood home in Augusta Ga. In the dream I was in a home beside the pond with friends discussing with the elderly owner about how much the pond had meant to me as a child. She asked why it had such meaning and I began to cry. The tears were a unique form of grieving and I could not explain my tears to her. She just sat calmly as I cried low soft groanings. As I woke up I realized two things. One, in the waking world, the pond in my childhood actually meant nothing much to me. It was simply a landmark we passed by frequently in our family vehicle. Second, I realized I was weeping in my dream because the pond reminded me of the time in my life when my parents had just divorced. At 4 years old, I did not know how to grieve. So now 40 years later I finally grieved the pain. Not the pain of an adult as I have grieved the divorce of my parents several times throughout my adult life. No, this was the 4 year old in me receiving a measure of emotional healing by dreaming of a connection to a previously lost icon of my adolescence. According to the Revelation of John, tears and crying are part of the "Old Order". Rev. 21:4 "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." The first record of tears in the Bible is when Abraham weeps over the death of Sarah. After that we see much weeping. Hannah weeps, Esau weeps, David weeps a lot and even Jesus weeps. Tears are a mystery. Physically they cleanse our body of toxins and proteins and even clear away debris. Perhaps this was the primary purpose of tears before the fall of humanity. Tears of sorrow now serve as a form of release and healing from the events in our life that cause us inner pain. I believe the answer to why we actually shed tears of sorrow is because deep in our spirits we know we are created for something much better than this, something complete, something grand and without injury or loss. This is why He will wipe away our tears when the new order of things is set in place. For those who know Jesus, in that day we will no longer mourn our loss, our brokenness and incompletion. But for now, I say when you need to cry, let it out. Without pride, fear or condemnation, cut loose and let the healing flow of tears bring cleansing to your soul while we all still suffer in this old order of things.

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