Tears on Your Face - Bethany Barnard

You are not alone.

    But You, Son of Man

    Love incarnate

    You don't see from far away

    You come, sit with me

    And grieve with me

    And I see tears on Your face

I am a sympathetic crier - if you start crying while you are talking to me I will likely at least have tears well up in my eyes. I cry for other people. For other people's pain.

    This is the aftermath

    This is the free fall, how far down does it go?

    This is the ripple effect

    This is what they mean, the dark night of the soul

I do not cry for myself when I am in the dark night of my own soul. I'm really really bad at ugly crying when I am personally in pain. I remember a friend telling me I wasn't allowed to wipe away my tears because she had "worked really hard for those" and at the time I wanted to roll my eyes and run away. If I do cry for real, it is very very unlikely you will see it. 

    I've gotta reconcile that

    You don't fast forward me through this

    And I've gotta reconcile that

    You want to know me when I'm like this

    And I've gotta reconcile that

    You didn't change the diagnosis

    And I've gotta reconcile that

    You've reconciled it all in Your flesh

God is not afraid of our pain. He doesn't want us to hide it from Him. Psalm 56 says "You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book." Not only does He collect our tears, He never leaves us alone in our pain.

    But You, Son of Man

    Love incarnate

    You don't see from far away

    You come, sit with me

    And grieve with me

    And I see tears on Your face

Friend, God is the ultimate in sympathetic criers - He has tears on His face as He sits and grieves with you. He is not far away. Love incarnate... grieves with you with tears on His face.

This is where no word fits

This is the broken heart in my chest

This is the wave building

This is the crashing on the shore again

This is where time slows down

This is when the world not slowing down feels wrong

This is a grieving town

Waiting for someone to make sense of it all

But You, Son of Man

Love incarnate

You don't see from far away

You come, sit with me

And grieve with me

And I see tears on Your face

This is the aftermath

This is the free fall, how far down does it go?

This is the ripple effect

This is what they mean, the dark night of the soul

But You, Son of Man

Love incarnate

You don't see from far away

You come, sit with me

And grieve with me

And I see tears on Your face

I've gotta reconcile that

You don't fast forward me through this

And I've gotta reconcile that

You want to know me when I'm like this

And I've gotta reconcile that

You didn't change the diagnosis

And I've gotta reconcile that

You've reconciled it all in Your flesh

You, Son of Man

Love incarnate

You don't see from far away

You come, sit with me

And grieve with me

And I see tears on Your face

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Bethany Barnard