January 15, 2010

• TEARS OF THE WORLD
  

  In any split second of a moment in time,
  In the blink that is one single day,
  The sum of the sorrow that wraps ’round the world
  Could catch every soul up and sweep them away.

  As vast as the ocean, as deep as the sea
  Swept up in one toxic tide,
  By warm salty waves the world weeps its woe,
  So how could it be that my own eyes are dry?

  So open my eyes and open my heart,
  Grant me the gift of Your grieving;
  And awaken in me the compassion to weep
  Just one of the tears of the world.

  When God walked among us in the fullness of time,
  He wept tears as old as the world;
  Acquainted with sorrow He took up the cup
  And drank every drop of the poison that heals.

  And so comes the call of this sorrowful Man
  To set our small sadness aside,
  To come now and follow no matter the cost,
  To follow Him boldly and wade in the tide.

  So open my eyes and open my heart,
  Grant me the gift of Your grieving;
  And awaken in me the compassion to weep
  Just one of the tears of the world.

  (Michael Card, from his album “The Hidden Face of God”)
  

  “Jesus, thank You for Your tears.  Thank You for entering into our suffering and filling it with hope.  Give us the grace that we might weep the tears of Your children who suffer today.  Amen.”

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