February 18, 2012
Tears - secretions that clean and lubricate the eyes. It is just a simple term. One simple teardrop speaks louder than a thousand words. One does not need to say a word, tell a whole story, or give an explanation... just simply shed one tear and his/her feelings are being expressed. Why is it okay to cry when we're sad, angry, happy, hurt and not okay any other times or out of the blue? Some days I just feel like crying and don't understand why. It is not that I'm miserable or that I feel blue. I will cry when I see an old woman walk down the street alone without someone to hold her hand. I will cry when my mom is sick and I can't be there to cook her a meal. I will cry when a child doesn't know who to give his/her Mother's Day Card to. I'm a cry baby like that and I don't understand. I used to believe that perhaps it is in my eyes, rather than my heart, where love lives. Today, I came across this.
"Mom, why are you crying?" he asked his mom.
"Because I'm a woman" she told him.
"I don't understand," he said.
His mom just hugged him and said, "and you never will." Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"
"All women cry for no reason" was all his dad could say.
The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.
Finally he put in a call to GOD. When GOD got on the phone the man said, "GOD, why do women cry so easily?"
GOD said:
"When I made women she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world; yet, gentle enough to give comfort.
I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly. This same sensitivity helps her to make a child's boo-boo feel better and shares in her teenagers anxieties and fears.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.
I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.
I gave her a tear to shed, it's hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed. It's her only weakness; it's a tear for mankind."
"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."
--- Author Unknown ---
In conclusion, I will shed a drop of tear in the rain, those who are able to find it and distinguish it from the raindrops will know of my true and endless love.
Topic: ~ The Road Less Traveled By ~ (Read 44663 times)