When sorrow can't be swallowed
and words fail to greet the pain
Let your name be hallowed
and all the more in cold cold rain
Lord help me to let go
of what I cannot understand --
How the world could behold your face
then turn and walk out of your hand
Make my tears my prayer
And meet all waves of grief
with breakers of your joy
that sweep my heart out to your sea
Plant tears as seeds of faith
in your outstretched palm
pierced for the world that rejects you
and will know that before long
Help me to release to you
the source of all these tears
I ask you not to stop them
but instead that you draw near
I don't ask for deliverance
from my heart's lament
but that you make it yours --
your heart in mine by whom you sent
I won't mind now if it rains
that it will pour like bitter sleet
Do not take my tears but water
with them new life at your feet
"For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us." 1 Corinthians 5:13
"Those who sow in tears Shall reap in joy."
Psalm 126:5
"So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow." 1 Corinthians 3:7
"So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it."
Isaiah 55:11