WEEPING relieves feeling and betokens inner emotions, but it does not solve problems. The prostrate figure in Gethsemane, weeping it would seem his very life's blood from brow to cheek, reached the moment of ultimate resolution, of final commitment and said: "Arise; and let us be going." Out of our tears finally, if they are to be of value to us, there must emerge a resolve of spirit. Perpetual and inconsolable grief is defeat and self-destruction. However great the burden, however irreplaceable the loss, however terrible the desolation which brings about our sorrow, for the follower of Jesus the moment must come when, having poured all his tears into God's bottle, he lifts up the head and says: "Arise, and let us be going."

HARRY TENNANT, The Man David, page 45