and sometimes, the tears just fall.

We can hold them in for a long time. We can become numb to the pain of others around us… we feel the ache inside, but our eyes are dry.

We walk through our own valleys in determined stoicism for a while, wondering if we’re normal not to cry.

Then, when the pressure is too great, the dam bursts open.

Or when we actually stop shutting it out. And take the time to pause, and feel.

For whatever reason, the tears start to flow again. For our own pain. For the struggles of those around us. For all the brokenness in this old world…

And those tears are okay. Because a broken heart will leak… but Jesus can pour His perfect healing into those cracks when they appear.

If our heart is closed to feeling, determinedly unbroken, it cannot release all the heartache stored inside.

When the dam bursts, we are actually in a better place than when we shed no tears at all.

A broken heart… is an open heart.

Those gaping cracks might be painful now, but they are the avenues through which your healing will come.

Jesus will mend your heart in the broken places. It is there He can pour in His love, peace, strength, and comfort.

Some sweet day, some sweet how, the tears will cease.

It may never be in this life, but if we are willing to be broken… to be open… Jesus can make our hearts ready to experience perfect completion. In heaven.