Why Women Cry

I've been a bit emotional this past week. I think its a combination from being anxious for baby to arrive, from the aches and pains of pregnancy, wondering if i'll be a good mom, comparing myself to others and wondering if i'm taking care of my body as much as I should have, frustrations at not having the energy to do all the errands/housecleaning that i want to do, getting tired easily, lack of sleep, everything!

i came across a website: www.blessingsforlife.com and found a BEAUTIFUL poem/story that i found comfort in and i wanted to share it with you.

Why Women Cry

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" Because I'm a woman she told him. "I don't understand, " he said. His mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will." Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?" "All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally he put a call in to God. When God got on the phone he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said:

"When I made the woman, she has to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclucively to use whenever its is needed."

"You see my son," said God, " the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carrys, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart-the place where love resides."

-author unknown