May 5

Tears of Joy

Bible in a Year :

Tears of joy will stream down their faces, and I will lead them home with great care.

Leaving home one morning, Dean found some friends waiting with balloons. His friend Josh stepped forward. “We entered your poems in a competition,” he said, before handing Dean an envelope. Inside was a card that read “First Prize,” and soon everyone was crying tears of joy. Dean’s friends had done a beautiful thing, confirming his writing talent.

Weeping for joy is a paradoxical experience. Tears are normally a response to pain, not joy; and joy is normally expressed with laughter, not tears. Italian psychologists have noted that tears of joy come at times of deep personal meaning—like when we feel deeply loved or achieve a major goal. This led them to conclude that tears of joy are pointers to the meaning of our lives.

I imagine tears of joy erupting everywhere Jesus went. How could the parents of the man born blind not weep for joy when Jesus healed him (John 9:1-9), or Mary and Martha after He raised their brother from death (11:38-44)? When God’s people are brought into a restored world, “Tears of joy will stream down their faces,” God says, “and I will lead them home with great care” (Jeremiah 31:9 nlt).

If tears of joy show us the meaning of our lives, imagine that great day to come. As tears stream down our faces, we’ll know without doubt that the meaning of life has always been to live intimately with Him.

Reflect & Pray

When was the last time you wept for joy? What do you think the meaning of life is?

Father God, thank You for the joy ahead for those who love You.

Some joy tears

It was about Toby.

Toby was the pup that was a street rescue. I only had him several days when we were in the woods hiking and he took off after a deer. It was in a cemetery that was adjacent to the national park and it was a huge amount of woods I went in there and spent the night calling him. My other pup Oliver was with me also. I had just that morning got his little nameplate to go on his collar it gave his name my name and a phone number five days and I heard nothing I was not crying tears of joy then. He was one of these animals that captured your heart quickly.

And Mr. Mayor he was your dogs boyfriend ! those two really got along beautifully.

Halloween night I just had a couple glasses of wine and was crying and stretched out just thinking.

And I got a phone call.

The woman’s voice on the other end said are you Dolly? Is Toby your dog? And without even a second after that she said ~ we love him already if you don’t want him we’d like to take him.

The tears started.

I assured her I DID want him. He was about 10 miles away from where he took off. And about 15 miles from where I lived but I told her I would come there and pick him up.

I was still crying in the van as I went to pick him up. Then all of a sudden I heard gunshots and felt them off the side of my van and also in the right passenger side Sideview mirror. I thought what a terrible Halloween prank.

This was on a quiet street Connector Street. I pulled up a little ways and got out of my van and looked at the window and also the mirror the window didn’t show a problem there were some dents in the side of the van but my Sideview mirror was shattered. I called the local law-enforcement and just let them know they said I need you to come in and file a report. I explained I would do it tomorrow because I was picking up my lost dog. As I pulled into the driveway I saw Toby sitting there on a long chain . apparently they had to lure him to the garage using hotdogs

well again I started crying. I guess those too were tears of extreme joy

that’s my story I hope others might share theirs