Crying

I remember when I was six years old, and I fell down to the hard sidewalk. My knee was gushing with blood, and I just starting bawling! It seems to me though that I fell alot when I was a kid. Especially during the terrible two's, you see those toddlers fall (actually sometimes it's quite funny), and they have this 3 second delayed reaction, and then they start crying.

When we get older, we don't cry during physical falls anymore, but we still cry during falls. When we get older, there are so many other things that make us emotional, and that we worry and stress over. For me, I bundle up my emotions inside, and sometimes this "grenade" that I create just goes off, and I loose it!

In the Bible it mentions how we should be like the children are. I think in a lot of ways we are children, especially in God's eyes. Whenever I cry, and sometimes even bawl, I often pray too, and those are the moments at times where I feel God's presence the most, and where I just feel the most vulnerable.

That's why I think in alot of ways a good cry is needed every now and then. It makes me feel like I'm more of a child, and makes me feel more dependent on my Father. And I think that's the way it should be.

Now, I have to admit at this point, I think I cry more than the average guy. But I don't care, I'm not going to hide under this "macho" shell or anything like alot of guys do. To end this blog, I would like to share with you a clip that made me cry uncontrollably. It's the last scene from the movie Rudy, where he finally gets a chance to play for Notre Dame, his dream. I think that everybody connects with an underdog story, and this is the best one out there. I guess I connected with it a little too much!

Enjoy! :)