Some days just hurt.
We come to tears.
Why do we try to escape this? We always want to have "happy" days, happy smiles and Happy Meals. We are so offended if this does not work out for us today. We are distraught over how things went, how we were treated, what people must think of us.
Why?
Benedictine monks are counseled in the Rule of Benedict: "Daily in one's prayers, with tears and sighs....confess one's past sins to God, and....amend them for the future."
Maybe it would be better if we knew this about every day. This will be, or must be, true every day whether we quite know it or not. We suffer or cause suffering. We come to tears of woundedness or confession. We pray to forgive or to be forgiven. We heal. Maybe we smile again.
Some days just hurt.
Don't let this surprise you very much. Even welcome it.
While we see through the immediate glistening light of salty tears, the hurting heart just begins to begin again. By grace, we are made to hurt and also to heal.
Amen.
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