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The Hands That Bind the Wound
Psalm 147:3
For those who mourn, these readings honor what has been lost and the Christ who weeps beside the grave.
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Scripture makes room for tears, an unedited cry, and the nearness that does not rush sorrow.
Psalm 34 speaks God’s nearness specifically to broken hearts and crushed spirits, refusing to make composure the condition for being held.
At Lazarus’s grave, Jesus weeps in a human body; John 11 receives tears as the language of love, not evidence of failed faith.
Psalm 88 carries an unrelieved cry into God’s presence, giving grief permission to call him Savior before the darkness has lifted.
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