healing tears
man oh man.
in a conversation with my parents, i realized something so incredibly sweet and precious.
for whatever reason i/we were talking about tears and crying, and something clicked in an incredible way. i learned last week in my microbio class about how lysosomes are present in our tears and destroy harmful toxins (in a really specific and fascinating way, i might add -- lysosomes are tough lil dudes!!)
i had known for a good while that tears served this purpose (though with no knowledge about the details), but tonight the Lord hit me with what it meant in a completely new way. not only can i say that our tears are not wasted and that the Lord stores up all are tears as i anticipate arriving in Heaven...
He is literally bringing healing through our tears, even in the times when we cry and almost feel worse... how precious, tender, and loving is it of Him to comfort us and heal us in our pain and suffering!! how present He is!!
no one should ever be told to suck it up, to man up, to stop crying. never. ever. this teaches people to fight against the very healing that God is so sweetly providing them.
i admittedly haven't done much research on all of this, but i really want to know more. here are links to two articles i looked at if you would like to learn more :)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844110/
file:///C:/Users/willi/Downloads/7_Vingerhoets___Crying_and_health_finalversion_6_7.pdf
"Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!" - Psalm 126:5 ESV
"You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears your bottle. Are they not in your book?" - Psalm 56:8 ESV
please share this info with others if you feel so led and i hope you found this worthwhile :)
thanks for reading!
-william
in a conversation with my parents, i realized something so incredibly sweet and precious.
for whatever reason i/we were talking about tears and crying, and something clicked in an incredible way. i learned last week in my microbio class about how lysosomes are present in our tears and destroy harmful toxins (in a really specific and fascinating way, i might add -- lysosomes are tough lil dudes!!)
i had known for a good while that tears served this purpose (though with no knowledge about the details), but tonight the Lord hit me with what it meant in a completely new way. not only can i say that our tears are not wasted and that the Lord stores up all are tears as i anticipate arriving in Heaven...
He is literally bringing healing through our tears, even in the times when we cry and almost feel worse... how precious, tender, and loving is it of Him to comfort us and heal us in our pain and suffering!! how present He is!!
no one should ever be told to suck it up, to man up, to stop crying. never. ever. this teaches people to fight against the very healing that God is so sweetly providing them.
i admittedly haven't done much research on all of this, but i really want to know more. here are links to two articles i looked at if you would like to learn more :)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844110/
file:///C:/Users/willi/Downloads/7_Vingerhoets___Crying_and_health_finalversion_6_7.pdf
"Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!" - Psalm 126:5 ESV
"You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears your bottle. Are they not in your book?" - Psalm 56:8 ESV
please share this info with others if you feel so led and i hope you found this worthwhile :)
thanks for reading!
-william
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