Cries of my heart

As I wrote in the previous blog, (A good cry, https://santhoshsramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-good-cry.html ) children who cry, cry for simple things, as per an adults perception. For the child it is not simple, but significant enough to break their heart. A small hurt, something they want but not available immediately, something their sibling has which they too want etc. For us adults, these are not worth crying over. 

 

We adults, though look down (in our mind) on such silly things, but on a deeper level we are broken by similar things too. Things that generally break my heart are desires unfulfilled, a relationship soured, a position not received, an appreciation that did not happen etc. These are important for me and need to be received, and acted upon. But there are other cries I need to hear too. 

 

Recently I came across this song, by Michael Card.

 

https://youtu.be/EycG6kFtj8s?si=d86i-28fiKROsBkc

 

In any split second of a moment of time
In the blink that is one single day
The sum of the sorrows
That wraps round the world
Could catch every soul up,
And sweep them away

 

As vast as the ocean,
As deep as the sea
Swept up in one toxic tide
By warm, salty waves,
The world weeps its woe
So how could it be
That my own eyes are dry?

 

When God walked among us
In the fullness of time
He wept tears as old as the world
Acquainted with sorrow,
He took up the cup
And drank every drop
Of the poison that heals

 

And so comes the call
Of this sorrowful Man
To set our small sadness aside
To come now and follow,
No matter the cost
To follow Him boldly
And 'weighting' the time

 

So open my eyes, and open my heart
And grant me the gift of Your grieving
And awaken in me the compassion to weep
Just one, of the tears of the world…

Manipur’s, Fatehpur’s, Sudan’s, Ukraine’s and the likes are common story these days. I wonder will I set my small sadnesses aside to shed one tear for the world?