Tears are a Language Everyone Understands

Tears are a language everyone understands.

Tears speak more about what our hearts feel than any words could ever express.

Those tiny drops of humanity that tumble from our eyes, creep down our cheeks and splash on the floors of our heart sometimes carry the message that our hearts ache and hurt.

Tears are the messengers that sometimes substitute for our crippled words and spill forth carrying with them our deepest emotions.

A tear stain on a letter speaks more than words ever could.

A tear falling on a casket says what a spoken farewell never could.

What summons a mother’s compassion and concern more quickly than a tear on the cheeks of her child?

What gives more support than the tears on the face of a friend as we pour out our troubles to them?

What do we do when the words just won’t come out right as all the nouns and verbs and adverbs and adjectives lay deflated at our feet?

When even the loftiest statements seem empty, what do we do?

I want to tell you this week that tears are a language that everyone understands!

How many of us are moved by the heartbreak of our children or some disappointment that crushes their little souls?

Won’t we also move to do all within our power to help them and ease their pain?

Show me a mother that won’t help her children when their hurt and I will show you someone who shouldn’t have children.

Why would you think that no one cares about our troubles or the things that hurt us?

When there are people who spend their lives helping others.

You see them in the newspapers, Mother Teresa, missionaries, and many others who sometimes even captured in foriegn countries.

These incident let us know that we all can be better people and should be concerned about the things that break our hearts.

We want to do the right things, but are sometimes not sure what those things are.

Can we listen to a co-worker who wants to bare all?

Listen to a stranger no one else seems to want to listen talk.

It could even be someone in are own household we haven’t noticed sobbing in the corner. Our hearts want to be beside them, but what would we say? What can we do?

Listen is the answer.

Easier said than done.

Maybe this is why we sometimes need it pointed out to us. We truly can be better people.

We are better people. Sometimes we just have to be reminded of it.