My heart ached to know the love of someone I held dear
My body wished to feel his touch and have this one so near
My soul willed that my heart’s dreams could dare to be realized
My spirit pled with One on high that He would hear my cries
Then the One who my soul, my spirit and life created
Whispered to my heart about my longing unabated
He spoke with words so tender, so loving and much more
“I take you to a place that you have never been before.”
He reached down and pulled my spirit up into a hallowed place
There for the first time I recall, I clearly saw His face
But not at first and actually, I better first begin
At the touch upon my heart, so deep, so deep within
“Your love’s so great”, He said, “that it tears you apart
Your dreams unrealized that you hold within your heart
You feel consumed within a deep and boundless ocean
Of love and dreams and hopes and wishes and emotion
The tears you cried and cry right now do not go unheeded
I keep them for the time when they are sorely needed
Now come with Me, for I have yet a mystery to show
And you will come to understand the love that I bestow.”
He gently took my hand, tenderness in his eyes
Yet sadness too I saw within that He did not disguise
“My love”, He spoke, “I wish right now to take away your fears
Therefore I take you to this place, the place of no more tears”
I saw before me a globe of sorts that remained shapeless still
Or perhaps it was ever changing, forming at His will
It was a liquid, clear and pure, of what, I did not know
A mystery, a secret that I knew He wished to show
He gestured and I stepped inside this transparent orb
It was not cold, nor hot, was the first thought to absorb
But thick it was somehow, not like water’s feel
I could however move about within it still
I felt a hand upon me and turned around to see
The most loving gaze upon my soul, directed straight at me
His eyes so clear, his love so keen, his desire I could feel
I knew somehow His love, His passion was more real
Than anything I had known or had ever felt before
I knew I needed more of this, this love, so real, so pure
He gently pulled me toward the center of this place
I did not know exactly why, I only knew His face
And there, as we stood, gazing face to face
I saw something a million years never will erase
He asked me if I knew by what we were surrounded
“I do not know, though I could guess, my guess would be unfounded.”
He smiled as He warmly said, “You have nothing to fear.
This matter is made up of our collective tears
Each tear you cry alone and think no one can see
I ask your angel to bring each of those special tears to Me.
And here in this hallowed place, our tears mingle and dance
They form this sanctuary where you now stand, entranced.”
His gaze of love and knowing that each tear I ever cried
Was lovingly gathered by the One Who for me had died
Filled my heart with feelings so mixed and deep and real
That from my eye a tear, it formed, and began to steal
Down my cheek, when He reached out and wiped my tear away
How I do not know, but in His palm my tear did stay
Somehow it did not mix with the other tears around
It stayed within his hand, purposed, safe, and sound
I looked at Him, amazed at the sight that I did see
But it was the beginning of what awaited me
As I watched a tear formed in Jesus’ loving eye
I knew that I could never bear to see my Lover cry
I reached out and touched His face and wiped the tear away
And strange, yet still, upon my hand, His tear, it also stayed
“Now, My love, the mystery, experience right here
What I can do with what you think is just a simple tear
You feel sadness and you cry, you wonder if I know
If these tears and for your broken heart I care, now I will show
The meaning and the purpose and what your heart can see
How something cheerless as a tear can set your spirit free.”
He reached out and took my hand and touched it with His own
The two tears trickled towards each other, and met, and then they shone
The brilliance I could not describe, like rays of crystal light
In rainbow colors, flowed through the orb, an entrancing sight
Each ray that seared around the globe set other teardrops free
Until these crystal tears throughout the globe were filtered down on me
I knew somehow these were the tears I thought I cried alone
Mixed with the tears my Lover cried for me, upon His throne
These crystals directed at my heart and filled it with a fire
A love, a passion, an understanding, a deep, searching desire
And then I knew, I understood, I grasped a Heavenly treasure
The mystery unfolded then, that with my mind I could not measure
The tears I cry, the aches I felt that tore my gentle heart
The feelings that I knew somehow would rip my soul apart
Were not seen as such by Him, Who knows, and loves, and cares
In His awesome love and mercy, with me He chose to share
The secret of His love so true, that He had never let go
Of any experience I ever had, and He chose to show
This love through bringing me right here, to this hallowed place
To take away my pain and fear, my heartache to erase
And instead to fill my heart with a wonder and a love
That could only come from one place, not my heart, but Above
And though I know that I may cry many more tears
And though I know that I will have to face yet greater fears
Still this peace I feel inside, because beyond emotion
I know there is a place in Heaven that is chosen
For times that we are most in need of Heaven’s deepest treasure
There is a place that will last beyond time’s binding measure
There is a place that in my heart I will hold forever dear
There is a place that He has called “the place of no more tears”.
