When Your Tears Fall Like Rain

When your tears fall like rain and puddle at your feet

and you’re wading in sadness and months of unspoken truth

the temptation is to kick it away, hoping it will dry up on it’s own.

But instead, you jump. Out, finally forming the words to speak so you won’t drown.

Knowing that when you do, you will also leap right into the middle of someone else’s down pour.

Hoping with humility that you’ll be able to receive their words of pain, you stand firm while they fall on you.

Because you desperately want to hold tight to the one you love.

For you know without doubt that the pain puddled at your feet isn’t what reflects your relationship.

So you talk. And cry. Admit. And confess. Share. And vent. Cry some more. And pray.

And you believe with confidence that soon you’ll be able to swing on the vine of truth that set you free.

And celebrate with the one who’s known you the longest.

And you wait to see what blossoms from the rain.

Together.