Tears of God

By Joseph C. Collins

What happens when sorrow and despair enter our lives? Who is there for us, if anyone? This is a story of what happened to a man.

The man walked along the road with pain in his heart. If you were in his shoes you would feel the same for he had been waiting a long time for someone like her, but she did not feel the same. He was a gentleman to her, who listened and was ever so kind.
Unfortunately, it was not enough, for someone else had won her heart.
So he did what a man does when such things happen. He said, “I wish you all the best,” and walked away.
So there he was on the road with an ache in his heart, but it is what happens next that is the reason for this story.
As he walked along the road the pain in his heart grew stronger, so strong that he could no longer stand. So he stopped walking, fell to his knees and grabbed his chest with his hands. As he was rocking back and forth, the pain became too much for him to bear; so much that his heart could no longer take it. His heart shattered into a thousand pieces all falling onto the ground.
But the man was determined not to give in and so he reached down to the ground and began to gather the pieces of his broken heart. However, the thoughts of what happened to him kept going through his mind. Soon he saw no point in fighting anymore. He dropped the pieces back on to the ground with tears filling his eyes.
As the tears ran off his face someone’s hand reached down and began to catch them. When the man looked up he saw the face of the Lord and on His face was a look of love and pity.
So the man cried and cried with he Lord’s hands under his face catching all his tears, and when this was done the Lord reached behind Him. There in His hand was a bottle. He took all of the tears that He caught and put all them into it.
He held the bottle up to the man and said, “When we reach the end of this road you will look back on these tears as nothing more then old tales.”
Then the Lord reached down onto the ground and began to pick up the pieces of the man’s broken heart.
But as he was watching the Lord the man looked into the Lord’s face and from His eyes tears began to fall. Except when the tears fell off of the Lord’s face they continued to fall until they hit the ground, disappearing for ever.
Then He took all of the pieces of the man’s heart and placed His hand on his chest.
The mans chest began to glow, and with every piece that the Lord put back, He put a bit of hope, strength and love in.
Suddenly the man felt new again. The pain that had haunted him for so long was now gone and in its place was peace.
The Lord helped the man to his feet and said, “Come on, let’s go.”

So as you can see, when sorrow and despair come into your life and the tears begin to fall, the Lord will always be there to catch them. But when the tears fall from His face no one well be there to catch His. That is why He is God and I am not.