"Jesus wept."
Only humans cry. What purpose does it serve? It doesn't make better
hunter/gatherers of us, or enhance our status on the evolutionary playing
field. It does allow compassion to well up, or for us to plead for it,
however. The warm salt water that falls from our eyes, if you think about
it, is much like the ancient seas that gave birth to life itself. Perhaps
the seas of tears are where our hope begins to give life.
4 comments:
Isn't there one where "Mary wept"?
"But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb" (John 20:11)
That the one you mean?
I really enjoy the whole seawater idea....I LOVE the repetition of certain elements of the world showing up over and over again. Could it be said that tears give birth to life as well?????
I have no clue. It was just in my head that there was a verse where "Mary wept." I could be way off. Wouldn't be the first time.
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