DRY AS BONE

All my tears ever flow
Dry as bone, dry as bone
River deep in my soul
Dry as bone, dry as bone

Have you ever experienced a hurt so deep that you cried until your tears ran dry?  Have you ever experienced a grief so deep that you could no longer cry visible tears… but the tears inside you became like an endless river flowing through your soul?

Only God can understand
Why my sorrows never end
And my tears forever flow
Dry as bone, dry as bone

I once knew someone very dear to me who experienced that kind of grief. She stopped being able to cry tears ‘on the outside’. She found that she just couldn’t, even if she tried. But the tears inside her heart over her deep grief never ceased… this side of heaven. And yet God still knew about every single one of those ‘hidden’ tears.

“Thou hast taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Thy bottle; Are they not in Thy book?” (Psalm 56:8). Can you imagine God’s ‘book of tears’?

She cried 7 tears today when she broke her toe….
So far I’ve collected 492 tears from him since the divorce….
Their weeping is like a continual flood, even on days when their eyes are dry; but I have counted and kept every single tear since the car accident that took their child from their arms….

Someday when I stand before the Lord, I hope to see His bottle of my tears I have shed here on earth. It’s not because of the tears themselves, but to actually see that amazing expression of God’s tender and vigilant love for me. Oh how precious!! What wondrous love!!!

You keep all the tears
My heart could ever hold
Keep them in Your bottle
Turn them all to liquid gold 

And with overflowing thankfulness, I will worship Love Himself.