Editorial January 29, 1979 Issue

About crying

Nathan A. Talbot

Kids cry. And so do teen-agers and women—and even men! People cry for all kinds of reasons. Some cry out of anguish. Others shed tears of gratitude or joy.

Crying has always been a natural human impulse. Everyone at some point has been moved to tears for one reason or another. And yet Bible writers recognized the day that there would be no more crying.

The book of Isaiah, for instance, foresees a new heaven and earth, and the prophet gives God's promise: "I will rejoice in Jerusalem, ... and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying." Isa. 65:19; John actually saw the presence of that new heaven and earth. His vision included the certainty for all of us that "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more ... crying." Rev. 21:4;

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