God took the form of man and lived experiencing all that we do. In so doing, He experienced all of our feelings. Based in part on John 11:38:
Jesus Wept (Ephphatha) by Michael Doyle One of the best secrets never quite kept Is the simple truth that Jesus wept There in the midst of His felt agony Jesus lived out His fullest Humanity Unnecessarily acquainted with grief His heartfelt tears brought relief In the good and bad and large and small It is worthy to remember and recall The angst felt in the Garden of Gethsemane Teaches us the depth of God's agony Felt so deep, tears fell like blood Mixing into the dust becoming holy mud Memories of Eden lost and to regain The result of man's sins in being so vain With a single touch He invites us to open And in so doing, in our way home again With a groan coming from a deep place He grasps His divinity in full embrace Far beyond what words can convey Jesus reached within to become the way In our blessed redemption, creation groans As if in childbirth, freed with its moans Fallen so far in all of our brokenness God grants His mercy with outspokenness Though undeserving we are given mercy And welcomed inside as one of God's family Missing out so often on the holy symphony Deaf ears fail to hear beyond felt cacophony Missing out on the sounds and the melody So many things that can move us deeply Until the unstopped ears are opened to hear And the truth of God becomes abundantly clear With a glimpse cast toward heaven and new earth We mere mortals can take hope and have mirth Knowing our Father has measured out our worth Keeping our eyes fixed steadily on true north Until then, When pain and loss have grown vast And storm clouds circle way too fast There is comfort in knowing He too felt Yet took courage despite what He was dealt (c) March 11, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
