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Apr. 17, 2008
Tears
Did you know that when you cut an onion, and your eyes tear up, the composition of those tears is only water and salt.
But when you cry from emotions, the tears that come out are not just salt and water, but hormones too. This beautiful creation by God carries out and away, the hormones that would otherwise cause stress, depression, anger, bitterness, tension etc..
A few days ago, I was talking with Susan, and I was crying.. Can't remember why right now, might have been about the septic tank backing up into the basement.. anyhow.. she commented that she had noticed I'd been crying a lot lately, and she felt it was a good thing. She feared that she held back tears too much, and wasn't letting it all out.
Stuart says that with me, I burst into tears, cry it all out and it's gone - issue dealt with. Where as other people, the pot just gets more and more full. He says things come into my in-box I deal with it, and ship it out asap.. compared with other people who's in-boxes just keep piling up.. and then they explode because they just can't take one more bit.
Yesterday, I got an e-mail from a friend from many years ago. At the sight of her name and the first line of the e-mail, jubilation was filling me, floods of memories of smiles and cups of tea, cooking together, her beautiful new house, her wedding, all came flooding back.. my heart was full of joy.
Three lines into the e-mail, she shared that her husband had died of Cancer. - I couldn't read - I burst into tears.. I turned to the family and shared what I'd read.. the tears streamed and streamed, the sobs burst from my voice.. but I was letting it out!!
I immediately got on the phone and called - I hadn't seen or spoken to her in a good 10 years.. but I was so glad she'd found me and made contact.. and we cried on the phone.. and then quickly shared some recent joyful news.
I'm amazed at the speed with which our minds and bodies can flip emotions. Sure some emotions take AGES to deal with. I'm sure my friend didn't just turn on and off the tears when her husband passed away, that must have taken many months of tears to work through shedding the hormones that would otherwise have withered the bones. I know when I lost Landis, or those babies last year, the tears kept returning long after the deaths of those babies, and I still cry at times over them.
I have another friend who went through a divorce a few years back. I remember her crying, and then stuffing back the tears, saying she didn't want her children to see her crying, she wanted them to see her strong. My kids see me cry so often, and yet they don't at all think of me as weak because of it. They know I'm going to come back out the other side, I won't remain in that sorrow very long.
I think it's good to share joys and sorrows. Hasn't God told us to bear one another's burdens? Did not Yeshua himself weep? Of course, joy is great to share.. lol, Susan has said I'm sometimes TOO joyful, it gets on her nerves that I'm so Joyful sometimes..lol, but we need to be able to share both the good times and the bad, to live out real life experiences, and see how God brings us through each one.
And now, I'm going back to bed, after having been up in the middle of the night typing out some thoughts.
Blessings on you my friends. |
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Posted by Anonymous 
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Apr. 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Love you,
Susan