Our Personal Psalms
No Shame In Crying:
When we cry about the suffering in our lives, feeling abandoned, hopeless, wishing desperately that things would change it’s easy to believe that our tears are weakness. I know I’ve felt that way. Try to hide my pain, to act like nothing is wrong, to be strong for everyone around you.
But it’s good to remember the Son of God went through the same thing.
On the night before His crucifixion, He went to the Garden of Gethsemane and Prayed to His Father with anguish. He cried out, “Let this cup pass from me” hoping there was another way, that He wouldn’t have to face what was coming. He wept many tears that night. He felt the weight of suffering so deeply that He asked if there was any other path.
If the Son of God….perfect, sinless, divine….experienced that kind of sorrow and cried out in His pain, then our tears are not weakness. Our struggles are not failure. Our moments of despair do not make us less.
Just like the Son of God said…. Not My will, but Your will be done….. speaking to his Father.
Showing, we may not agree in the moment of anguish… But let Gods will be done!
The Beloved Son showed us that it’s okay to cry. It’s okay to ask for relief. It’s okay to admit when we’re suffering. He didn’t hide His anguish He brought it honestly before His Father.
So when we feel like breaking down, when the hopelessness feels overwhelming, when you want to cry but think you shouldn’t….remember Gethsemane. Remember that crying out in pain is not weakness. It’s honest and it’s exactly what The Beloved Son of God did.
And if He could weep and still rise again, being His Mothers brothers and sisters…. so can we!
“But He answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.” Matthew 12:48–50
