Do your tears flow freely?
16th May 2006
Just read this entry on Cat’s blog about crying. She shared about her bottled-up and mixed-up emotions welling up in tears:
I felt ridiculous for some time but realize that with all that I’ve gone through, this crying was no big deal. It’s just my emotions having built up and finally releasing over so many years. I always held in my sorrow and anger…and now at times it comes out in spurts like temper tantrums and crying fits.
I relate to what she says about crying. When I was younger, I used to cry easily and often. Then one day, I stopped. Maybe because I realized that crying doesn’t really help the situation. Or maybe because I found that crying doesn’t ease the pain. For a long while I just didn’t cry. For instance, I couldn’t even cry when my mom passed away. I yelled, I screamed, but the tears didn’t flow. Not easily anyway.
Then a few years ago, I started to sob like a baby. Read the rest of this entry »
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