Take these tears, O my God;
I cannot hold them anymore. Catch them please. Use them
to pour out a river that I can follow upstream to the well of your own tears
in which pain’s water is turned to life’s wine.
I cannot hold them anymore. Catch them please. Use them
to pour out a river that I can follow upstream to the well of your own tears
in which pain’s water is turned to life’s wine.
Teach me solace and perspective here
in the sacred circle of suffering and resurrection.