When I Cry, You Cry

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"Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. Psalms 27:7

This is my first post since May 21 of this year 2011.  Sometimes regardless of your perceived strengths,  when hardship hits you personally, you are affected in diverse ways that are so unimaginable, that even words fail to describe it.  There is a song with such beautiful lyrics that describes vividly the feelings my wife and I experienced, when we lost our son in his battle with cancer on July 24th of this year at the tender age of 27.

Through transition of emotions, there are gentle moments of soothing reflection during the healing process when we look to the Lord for help.  In the book of Luke 9:11  It says that as the people followed him, "Jesus spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing."

Oh but how we reflect on the words of Job as we visualize the imagery of it piercing his heart when he lost all ten of his children in one day, "Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! Job 6:2

The poetry of King Solomon exclaims that the knowledge bestowed upon his servants in Ecclesiastes 1:18 does not necessarily buy you a get out of grief card either.  "For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.   Oh why oh Lord must we be entrapped in this cloud of dazed mournfulness, grief and sorrow?

  
"making a list of all the good things you done for me, Lord I never been one to complain, but right now, I'm lost, and I can't find my way......my worlds come apart,... and its breaking my heart,... but it helps to know, that your heart is breaking too, when I cry, you cry, when I hurt, you hurt, when I've lost someone, it takes a piece of you too, when I fall on my face, you fill me with grace, cause nothing breaks your heart, or tears you apart, like when I cry."

It is times like this in life, when we feel so abandoned and lost that he lovingly gives us a song, and remind us that we are not alone.  That he feels our pain and had experienced our sorrows.  He gives us a song of encouragement through His Word,  "so be truly glad! there is wonderful joy ahead, even though the going is rough for awhile down here." 1 Peter 1:6

So we press forward to that blessed morning, when Jesus comes back in the clouds to take us home, and to again be with our loved ones.  "But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid."   Matthew 14:27

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.   Revelation 21:4   

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