"SOW IN TEARS"

This little message is lifted from the web site "Endurance", an on-line ministry  of Dave Dravecky and his wife.  It comes from the pen of Joni Erickson Tada and those who know her story will appreciate it all the more, so here it is; when she was just entering adulthood she suffered an accident leaving her paralyzed from the neck down.  Joni went through tough times, painful times, shed a lot of tears but kept on striving. She learned to paint and write with pen or brush in her mouth.  She marketed a line of greeting cards, painted by her.  Joni wrote books, got married and wrote the following:  "What a promise!  Think of it.  When you sow in tears, you will enjoy a marvelous and abundant return on your investment.  But, you may be thinking, when have I ever gone out weeping, carrying seed to sow?
If you have ever reached through an invisible wall of pain to embrace God with willful thanks, you have sown in tears.  If you have ever been rejected by a dear one and yet turned the other cheek in love, you have sown in tears.  If you have patiently endured physical afflistion, or responded in love through a difficult marriage, then Psalm 126:5-6 could be your life verse.
When you hurt physically or emotionally, it's hard to muster a patient or godly response.  Pain has a way of screaming for our undivided attention.  But when you either offer a sacrifice of praise to God in the midst of your hurt, or respond in faith to a heartbreak of hardship, you are sowing in tears.  Take heart, for one day God will reward you with sheaves of joy--all because you were faithful through tears."....Joni Erickson Tada!
Medicineman!