Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.A couple of years ago I received a bottle as a gift from a friend, When I opened the gift, I really wasn’t quite sure what it was. The little bottle was a beautiful dark blue, it wasn’t very big and it was covered in very intricate chain mail. At first I thought it was a bottle for perfume a very small bottle, the note attached said it was a real tear bottle, they had found it in a op shop. I looked up tear bottle in google and found that these bottles were used in early Rome and Egypt when Christ was here on earth. At a funeral mourners collected tears as they went to the graveyard, it was a way of knowing how much a person was loved . women were often paid to follow the procession of mourners and place their tears into a bottle. It seemed that the more pain and tears, it showed a the higher regard for the dead person. It is said that the hired mourners who cried the loudest and produced the most tears were paid the most. I keep this bottle because i remember the profound truth that David wrote in his Psalm 56, at one of his lowest points of his life. His enemies had captured David in Gath (he had pretended t be crazy to survive), he found comfort in knowing that God saw everything that was happening to him and caught every single tear. I love David’s confidence in Gods faithfulness and mercy, even when David himself had not been faithful, he knew and there was no doubt that, God never missed a moment, never missed a tear, and not even a sigh. Now do you have that rest in … Continue reading Your bottled tears