Tuesday's Trust - "See How Much He Loved Him… " - Tears are the "Yes" of a Broken Heart

Tuesday's Trust

"See How Much He Loved Him… "

Tears are the "Yes" of a Broken Heart

From the book of John, chapter 11…

32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 

34 “Where have you laid him?” He asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

35 Jesus wept.

36 Then the Jews said, 

“See how He loved him!”

"Though we encounter it as suffering, grief is in fact an affirmation. The indifferent do not grieve, the uncommitted do not grieve, the loveless do not grieve. We mourn only the loss of what we have loved and what we have valued, and in this way mourning darkly refreshes our knowledge of the causes of our loves and the reasons for our values. Our sorrow restores us to the splendors of our connectedness to people and to principles. It is the yes of a broken heart. In our bereavement we discover how much was ruptured by death, and also how much was not ruptured. These tears lead directly to introspection."  

~Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic’s literary editor

Artwork, thanks to ~Far Side of the Rainbow
Picture of Jesus crying, thanks to GoodSalt.com