Please Dont Cry! Allowing People to Express their Emotions by Crying

                                    Please Don't Cry! 

                                  Allowing People to Express their Emotions by Crying

We often tell people, "Don't Cry!" when we see them sad and crying in front of us. Why do we do that?

Why do we tell them to Not cry? Maybe it is because of our own selfish reasons, maybe it is because it makes us feel uncomfortable. We struggle to find ways to comfort them. We don't know what to say to them in this situation. 

When someone passes away, we often don't know what to say to them that will offer them comfort and make them feel better.  Why not just allow them to feel what it is they are feeling. We should allow them to "get into their feelings" as some would say. We need to allow them time to feel the emotions and cry, if that is what they feel like doing at that point in time.  

When I worked in the hospital as a RN many years ago, I would see people cry a lot. Often times the doctors would immediately diagnose them as depressed and order some type of medication to treat their depression.  I would often wonder why doctors would respond this way instead of allowing them to feel their emotions and simply cry.  I would never tell my patients to not cry or make them feel bad about expressing that emotion. They just needed to cry about whatever situation they were facing at that time.

God gave us this emotion to allow us to express our feeling, of sadness or happiness and we are allowed to cry.  Remember the song. It's My Party and I will Cry if I Want To, sung by Leslie Gore? That song was recorded in 1963. She goes on later to say in the song's lyrics - "You would cry too if it happened to you." In the song's lyrics, it is describing a girl whose boyfriend ran off and married her good friend and then shows up together, at her party with a ring on her hand. 

This song was actually produced by Quincy Jones, few people are aware of that fact.  The song was written by Seymour Gottlieb, based on actual events relating to his own daughter's sweet sixteen birthday party. She did not want to invite her grandparents to her own party. Perhaps she felt they were too old and would ruin her party by their mere presence. Well guess what? Her grandparents did eventually attend this birthday party. 

Sometimes we just need a moment to cry, and then all is right again with the world. 

by Ella Shines Goldsmith

   

                             God is Watching Us!

Preface: Someone (not me) wrote this and allowed me to publish it, in hopes that it would help someone. The author wants to remain Anonymous.

Be careful what you do and say because God is certainly watching you.

 Who in the world and universe should you worry and be concerned 

about seeing what you do and say?  Answer: God, who sees ALL. 

I am here to warn you to be watchful and 

concerned about what you do and speak.  

 Below are some Bible verses.  
	

	Mark 13:33 NIV states “Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know 

when that time will come.”
		

1 Corinthians 16:13: "Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, 

act like men, be strong" 

		

Colossians 4:2: "Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful 

in it with thanksgiving" 

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1 Peter 5:8: "Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the 

devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour" 

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On the 20th December 2024 @ 10:00 am, I was sitting on my porch, 

drinking coffee and thinking about our God and how compassionate 

He is.  Our God is the creator of ALL 

THINGS and He sees EVERYTHING.  

It’s so funny how we think no one is watching us.  We sometimes 

do things that are good and things that are bad.  God knows everything 

and sees everything that we do, and it’s written in the Book of Life.  

When we decide to do something that is “good” or “bad” we shouldn’t 

really care bout what other people here on earth think.  

Our main concern, let me say this one more time, our main concerns, 

should be about what God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit 

thinks and sees.  

We need to be especially careful if it’s “bad” thoughts or “bad” things 

we do.  

I really want you to understand how important this is.  Who is this 

writing this text?  I’m just an ant crawling along & praying that

 a lot of good things are written in the “book of life” for me.  

Now, I have done things that were not so good.  But never in my life 

did I consider how or what God thoughts were about what I was doing. 

 It was late in my life—actually after I retired that I started to think 

more about God.  I spoke to God and said why Lord, why did it take 

me so long to hear you.  My Lord, I was so embarrassed to think about 

the “bad” things I did in my life.  

So I want to say, you might be able to do “good” or “bad” things in your

 life and get away with it from the people of this world but, oh my, 

it’s the Trinity (God the Father, Jesus the Son and Holy Spirit the 

Comforter) this is who we should be really worried about.  

Think about it, that is, if you believe in the Trinity, you need to be

 very very careful, because EYES/EARS are watching and seeing you.  

You might say, I’ll just ask for forgiveness, but the Trinity knows your 

heart, mind and thoughts even before you make a decision to do something.  

God doesn’t say think about what you are about to do whether it’s good or bad.

  It’s call free will that God has given to each and every one of us.  

What I’m saying is try very hard to make the Trinity (God, Jesus 

and Holy Spirit) a daily routine and a habit in your daily life.   

 Start to pray about everything you do and then ask God to open your 

mind and heart to hear and your eyes to see 

what the Holy Trinity is trying to show you.  Now, I'm going to say 

this is not an easy task. It’s something you will need to practice 

daily and sometimes 3-6 times a day, if not more.  

BLUF (bottom line up front) is to be prayerful, and know that God knows 

your heart,mind, soul and everything about you.  He has given us free 

will and if your “free will” is to do “bad things” just know during 

The Judgement—when Jesus comes back to this earth, that you nor I will

be able to explain why we did what we did. 

 The jury, which is the Trinity, has already decided whether you are 

guilty or not guilty.  It’s written in the “Book of Life”.  You will NOT be 

able to give an explanation about why you did this or why you did that.  

It’s your life, or it’s your free will. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!