Are you one of those who thinks that a true Christian is always happy? A drummer in a Salvation Army band hit his bass drum with all his might - BOOM, BOOM! The band leader suggested that it might be better if he did not hit the drum so hard. "Bless ya, sir!" explained the drummer. "Ever since I was converted, I am so happy that I could just bust this bloomin' drum!"

The truth is that a Christian has times when tears are in order. In Ecciesiastes, we are told that there is "a time to weep and a time to laugh." No one, even a Christian, can be happy all the time. All sunshine and no dark days of rain make a desert. Lent is a time for tears. Lent is going with Jesus to Jerusalem where he suffers and dies. Isaiah describes him as "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." It was a time of…