You may have noticed that our lessons for today from Revelation and from the Gospel of John both involve tears. In one passage Jesus weeps. In the other, God wipes away tears from His children’s eyes.

All of us can relate to the idea of crying. We’ve all done it at some time in our lives. Of course some people cry easier than others and people cry for different reasons.

“You don’t love me anymore,” said one poor guy’s wife as she turned on the waterworks. “When you see me crying, you never ask why.”

“I am sorry, darling,” he said, “but that sort of question has already cost me an awful lot of money.”

I like something that comedienne Pam Stone once said. She said, “Men and women have always had problems relating. As children, men were told, ‘Be a man. Don’t cry!’ and women were told, ‘L…