A good father takes time to play
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He has strong integrity
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He is someone
that is truly dedicated
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He is not
afraid to show his love
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He is a caring provider
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And, he's a
kind, spiritual leader
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These are just a few ways
to describe a father's heart
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Hi, welcome to A Father's
Heart. My name is Xavier
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Today's topic is Jesus Wept
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Fathers can cry too.
Society tells us that we can't,
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but I know we're allowed to cry
and with me to talk about it is
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Denry and Gordon. How
are you guys doing today?
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Pretty good man,
doing well. Doing great man
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Glad to be here,
so glad to be here.
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So, society says men can't cry
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we shouldn't
cry, we have to man up
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you know, no tears, no nothing
just deal with the situation
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no emotion. But the
Bible says Jesus wept
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So why can't fathers cry too?
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Well you should take that one
now. I was thinkin you'd take it
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you're the older father,
probably you've cried more tears
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than we did or did you
not? You know, it says it twice
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when Lazarus passed and
when He was in Jerusalem
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and it could be also when He
was in the Garden of Gethsemane
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you know it says He was
very emotional in the Garden
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so it doesn't say that he
cried but He had lot of emotions
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in the Garden. But the
thing about it, think about it
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if Jesus could shed some tears
and these were realistic tears
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I mean Lazarus died, the crowd
was crying, everyone was crying
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and He got caught
in the moment also
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and then He cried over
Jerusalem how they rejected Him
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how the people rejected Him,
so these are some of the things
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that we deal with, as fathers.
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Rejection. You know sometimes
when others are around us
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we get emotional, like a funeral
I've seen men cry at funerals
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Some of them even
try. And weddings.
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I remember my
wedding. It came right here
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And I guess because my friends
had dared me and challenged me
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I put it right here
and sucked it right back in
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put it right back up in my eye
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so I think there is
that epitome of men don't cry
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but realistically, we shed tears
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Come on, we do.
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We're taught not to cry, you
know. Man up, you know you don't
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cry. You're a macho guy,
macho guys, you don't cry
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but for me I have issues with
that. I cry sometimes it even
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makes me feel good. So I don't
think that as a man or as a
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father we shouldn't cry. I
think we should show that we're
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emotional, we
are emotional beings.
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So we really can't help but
cry and situations make you cry
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I cried this
morning watching a wedding.
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I just burst in tears
because the groom was singing
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no, a lady was singing
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
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and that stuff was so good,
I burst into tears and you know
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just uncontrollably. I even
cry when I'm preaching sometimes
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not that I want to or plan
to do it but I'm in touch with
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my emotions and
I'm ok with that.
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So, I don't have any
problems with crying.
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Interesting thing about that
is when I got older and left the
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house, as a teenager
you know got into adult hood
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and left the house. I expected
my mom to just bawl and she did
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she cried. I moved out and she
calls me a few days later after
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I did everything and she
says your father's crying
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more than I was. And that
did not make me question his
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man card as they say, it
actually, I had a high level of
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respect for my father because
it showed me that I'm like, man
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you know it's ok. Obviously
you're not going around like
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even a woman, women are not goin
around boo hoo hooing all day
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long. But we men, as fathers
we need to show our young men
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that it's ok to have emotions
you know we should create a
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atmosphere in our men's groups
to share. We have different
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ways, women cry one way men cry
another. Women share feelings
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one way and men share
feelings in another way.
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But we still share them. And
I think we need to create that
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atmosphere in our homes with
our young men, even our young
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ladies in our homes that
we, our daughters. Show them
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that dads hurt
too, we are human.
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I've had my share of tears
and I've had sometimes just
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uncontrollable tears when I lost
my, when we lost our first child
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I was bawlin, I was weepin. My
wife was there she was the first
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week of the fifth month
and the child came early
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still born and this
was our first, first child
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and I was trying to be
that shoulder, tryin to do that
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you know all that
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she was crying and I was crying
and it was just tears, I mean
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I mean I was literally just
I was trying to hold my wife
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and all that and we just in
each other just exchanging tears
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but I was glad when I looked
back, to be there with her
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and sharing the emotion rather
than trying to suppress the
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emotion and just like ok
dear it's gonna be alright
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No. It's not gonna be alright
she just lost her first child
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And for me the reason I was
crying more because I never got
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the chance to
bond with that child
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She experienced it in the
womb but I never got a chance to
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and then I was even questioning
God, how in the world, what
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we were at church, we had church
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when it occurred and we had
to run to the emergency room
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and we lost the baby and I said
how in the world God, how, how
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how come and I was just
questioning and questioning God
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and I was filled with tears
and I couldn't do the whole
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I had to be there with her
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Do you find yourself crying when
you look at the state of the
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world or the condition
of your city that you pastor
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or your church? I find myself
crying when I even think of
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how degraded families have
become and I think that's why
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one thing why Jesus cried over
Jerusalem when He looked at the
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condition of
Jerusalem and He wept.
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I find myself doing the
same thing and it's not because
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I'm not a man. I cry
because I love the people.
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And you know that if
they continue in the same road
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it's not going to be good.
So there's so many ways that you
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find yourself crying, at
least for me, and I'm ok to uh
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I feel good, I feel good about
doing it. I have no problems.
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We cry. And men too,
you're trained from a young age
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not to show that emotion. I
remember back in my previous
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life before I became a Christian
I was in law enforcement and
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in law enforcement you're
trained not to have any emotion
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but God created us this
way, so what do you do? You find
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coping mechanisms.
Other ways other means
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to cope with your emotions.
So you know I turned to drinking
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alcoholism. Just drink, drink
drink. All the coping mechanisms
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that were being detrimental,
not only psychologically
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especially but physically
and it wasn't until, I remember
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I picked up an old
Bible, you know the cliché,
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old, dusty Bible and I
dusted it off and I was watching
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this movie about Jesus
for the first time in years.
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And I saw, you
know, a particular scene
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in which He was getting
whipped and I started crying
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I said, what kind of a
human being, what kind of man,
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what kind of God
would take this for me?
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It was then that I
learned emotions are ok
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obviously, like anything else,
it depends on how you express
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them, on how you
channel those emotions out
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you know you can't go
out and do those crazy things
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but I think it's our job
as fathers to create that
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environment in our home in
which our children can freely
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share their emotions without
the repercussions, especially
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our young men you know. Young
ladies too but especially young
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men, that they can be free
to share their hearts. I mean
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we are in A Father's Heart.
We need to learn that a father's
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heart can receive that emotion
from a child and say it's ok
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we'll cry together, we'll
be together, we'll deal with it
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together. But what we do
from that child when that child
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is small the child starts to
cry "don't you cry, stop crying"
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Right there is where the problem
starts. We start to shut them up
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from small. Have you even been
spanked? When they spank did
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your parents ever tell
you, don't cry. Don't you cry
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It makes no sense to me
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So you try it because you gotta
stop crying because if you don't
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stop crying you're
afraid you'll get some more.
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So I think that's where we
start to cultivate this habit
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and tell the children,
don't you cry, stop crying.
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You know you said how the
police they weren't supposed
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to show their emotions and
rather they was supposed to put
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it to the bar or
whatever but even a look at that
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I think men are
having a problem identifying
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with those emotions. So instead
of dealing with them they try to
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suppress them and by suppressing
them now you're putting
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detriment to your life.
Now there's gonna be more tears
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later on. There was a situation
I was going out with my wife
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actually we were engaged, it
was a few months before I got
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we got married and this was
one of those rejection cries
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I thought she was gonna break
up with me because I had done
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made a big booboo, made a mess
and I thought she was just goin
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and I was at church and it just
came, because I thought she was
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goin break up. I said I knew
it I messed up, I was sayin Lord
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I messed up, it's done. And I
just started bawling in church
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and then I had to run to the
bathroom, I was tryin to hold it
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and she was the one comfortin
me and she was crying too
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And you see what happened there
which instead of crying with our
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children, look what we're saying
to God when we say, no crying
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what are we telling our
children rather what God does
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we're telling them that God is
not in touch with our emotions
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God doesn't cry, God
doesn't care, God doesn't feel
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And this transcending God,
He's just up there. He's made us
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and He's not in touch
with us. That's a lie.
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Full lie. But when
we're in there with our child
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and not necessarily that we have
to just because they're crying
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we too must cry but we feel the
not sympathy but we empathize
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with them and we help them
through with that. Even after
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they've been disciplined, we
shouldn't just discipline them
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Ok, go to your room. I remember
when they did, ooh I ain't goin
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tell on my parents but I
remember when they did that
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It was one of the most
vulnerable moments in your life
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when after being scolded,
whatever way, and then sent to
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your room. You have rage, you
feel shame, I can't believe I
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did it again. How much
time, you call yourself names.
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I remember my son and it
just broke my heart. I heard him
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one time and he didn't
get scolded or anything
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we just did some correcting
and he went into his room
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and he was
calling himself stupid.
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He was calling, I'm
so stupid I'm so stupid
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And I had to go in
there and rescue him from that
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I said, No you're
not. You're not stupid
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I said you're a great son
and that time I think he was the
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this other one was a baby
still and I was like you're a
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wonderful son. We make
mistakes, we do stupid things
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but you're not stupid
and I had to encourage him
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and I said, I don't want
to hear you say that because
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you're not. God
didn't make you stupid
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You're my son
and you're not stupid
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But some sons don't get
that. Some boys and some girls
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don't get that. They get
sent to their room, door is shut
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and they're in there
just tearing themselves up
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they're already hurt and now
they've added more like they're
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diggin the shovel and
throwing the dirt on themselves
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So the emotions turn
into negative emotions
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Oh they become later on now,
they're just, you wonder why
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they're just cold. Some
parents when their kids get
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out of home never call them.
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Push them in a nursing home,
I want nothing to do with you
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I'm glad you're touching
that because it's important
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that we help our
children differentiate between
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crying as in whining, temper
tantrum and cry because they
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hurt Like, I'm glad you
said that because we do the same
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thing at home you know send
my daughter, she does something
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wrong. She gets disciplined,
she's crying she doesn't want
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to go to her room, she's
crying and crying in there
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but we make it a point that
after she calms down a little
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bit or time frame, usually we
go by age, if she's 4 she gets
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4 minutes, if she's 5 she
gets 5 minutes that kinda thing
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we go in there afterwards and
talk to her to make sure that
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even though you're
crying, you're not alone
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even though you're hurting
because you did something wrong
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you're no dumb, your
intelligence is not in question
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you're not a bad
child, you just made a mistake
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you need to understand where
it comes from and it's ok to cry
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my wife had to teach me
that because I have two girls
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I'm so used to being
told, Don't cry you're a man
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At the beginning when I saw
my daughter crying, I'm like
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Those tears, you stop that. My
wife said, don't tell her that
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let here express her emotions
and we have to help her channel
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those expressions and
that's one thing I've learned
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through being a father that even
though I was taught not to cry
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even though my dad one
day said A real man, cries!
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It's still imbedded in me
that you don't cry but I've
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learned through the years
that what we learned as children
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not necessarily is correct.
That we need to teach as fathers
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because we have that ability
to teach them how to channel
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those emotions. Because
I'm sure you can relate to this
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as men, when we don't
channel those emotions, it often
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turns into aggression. We
have to get it out some way
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so sometimes it's okay
just to have a good cry
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You know there's times
like I like Pr. Gordon you said
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I listen to a good song about
God's glory. I don't care who's
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watching, that's my God. I
stand and weep in awe of the joy
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of the Lord. Right now I'm just
thinking about it, it brings
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tears to my eyes, because
who cares? This is my God
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who created me and I
deserve death. I deserve to die
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That's what I'm gearin up for
death but He says, here is life
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Our children need to learn the
joy of the Lord is our strength
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But also need to
learn that we have emotions
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We just have to find a
way on how to appropriately
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cope with them. I think that's
where we come in as fathers
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To use our language
that God understands
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He understand our pain, He
understands what we're going
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through so being able to let
that emotion out in whatever way
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whether it's in tears, or smilin
or whether it's giving praise,
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when you're
thinkin of God's goodness.
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What Revelation says, John
says the tears of the saints
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Tears of the saints. I
mean it's just, crying is great
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It's a refreshing thing, it's
purification. It helps to purify
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the soul. This came to mind just
now, just popped into my head
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I wonder if Judas, who
betrayed Jesus had cried.
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Because of his guilt. But
instead of crying, he hung
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himself. He killed
himself. I wonder if he had shed
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a few tears on Jesus'
shoulder saying I'm sorry
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would he still remained
alive and walked with Jesus?
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Emotional guilt don't make you
cry. That's a different type of
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emotion. So I wouldn't think
he'd cry. I don't know what do
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you think? But notice Peter.
Judas may not, Judas felt that
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he went too far but Peter felt
he went too far too but look
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at the difference. He was
sorry. He wasn't crying of guilt
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Peter wasn't crying of guilt,
Peter was like how could I do
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this to the one who loved me?
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And then when he
looked at the face of Jesus
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he broke. But it's just me
and based on how I see the Bible
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but this is not in the Bible,
I just see. I believe that
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because you remember that
it said he went to the garden
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and he wept. I don't
believe he was there by himself
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I believe the Holy Spirit
was there to comfort him because
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now we find Peter later
on and Jesus restores Peter
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You see what I'm saying? So even
in those vulnerable moments when
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you cry, you need somebody. Ok
this we have, when Jesus was in
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the Garden and He was vulnerable
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Three times He said to the
Father, it's not my will but
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Thy will. Take this from
me, it's not my will. And he saw
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He went to the disciples
and instead of them being there
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encouraging Him they
were sleeping. He had no one.
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What did God send?
An angel to comfort Him.
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And I believe sometimes our
kids, we have kids out there
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that have been abandoned,
that have been broken, been hurt
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molested and they run to their
rooms, they have no one and
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they're sheddin and they're
crying, they're tearing apart
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in their room and
God sends an angel
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and when we get to heaven
and God replays these things
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we will see our Guardian
Angel in there comforting us
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I find that even the toughest
person will cry at times. I
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I'll give you a
typical, it's a small example
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I met a young man, he was
incarcerated. He was lookin at
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natural life, that's it. he
was in so much trouble. So they
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locked him away for good and
there I was ministering to him
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And that day he was moving
from jail to the big house
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or vice versa, however,
whatever it doesn't matter
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where he was goin, but
he was going away forever
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I remember he called me and
he said, could you read Psalm 23
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because he couldn't
read. And I started reading,
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The Lord is my
Shepherd I shall not want
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and this hardened
criminal burst into tears
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tears just started flowing,
I myself got a little, you know
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surprised because I
didn't expect to see it.
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So even a hard person,
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because of the emotions
that's in them, can cry.
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As fathers you know, even if
we don't, some fathers you know
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you don't have to sit there
weeping in front of your child
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but at least take
some time with your spouse
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or if you're a single father
Oh I know they're gonna cry
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take some time for
yourself to release because, man
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my belief is that if you
truly come to the feet of Jesus
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if your eyes are
dry, your heart is dry
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you still haven't
come, you still haven't come
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Like they say, I'm gonna leave
it at the foot of the cross
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That's good but I don't serve
a dead God. My God is risen
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He's alive and when He touches
you, when the Holy Spirit
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touches you, you know
that touch. When He touches you
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I don't care what nobody says
when the Holy Spirit touches you
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there will be either tears
of joy or tears of repentance
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You're gonna cry,
you're gonna feel it.
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Your heart is just made out of
stone and the minute He touches
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your heart, boom! You
can't help it. It is what it is
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Going back to the
Peter and Judas thing, right
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they both went
to the high priest
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Remember we said that the man,
the father, the husband is the
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priest of his home.
Judas went to Caiaphas
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whichever one it was, the
manly priest and he was rejected
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what does that
have to do with us?
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What does that have to do
with us? And he was rejected
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and what did it
result? To his demise.
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Peter saw the heavenly priest
Jesus himself and he was touched
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by Jesus and so much he repented
of what he did. Both of them
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went a priest now. So I ask
fathers, which priest are you?
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They both were in the wrong.
When your child comes to you
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and he's done wrong, or
she's done wrong which priest
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do they see. I don't
think we look at that
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Are you the priest that
rejects them, scorn them
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and send them out to their
demise, to their destruction
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Or are you the priest
that leads them to restoration?
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And you said that when God
touches you, God touches you
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even the coldest they have
to shed a tear. I love songs
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and one of the songs that
touches me is "He touched me"
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He touched me. What's your song?
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What's your song, that touches
you? Great is Thy Faithfulness
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I didn't mean to put
you in a spot. No. no. no.
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I know you love to
sing. You're messing with me
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But it touches you, it touches
you when you hear that song
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Because it touches
your relationship with God
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And Peter
remembered his relationship.
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I can go back to him.
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I can go back to him
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That's amazing. What do you say?
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But you know, I might agree
with whatever you're saying.
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Something touches us. But
there is 2 things that I think
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happened. We think
that tears are a weakness.
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When you cry you're weak
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So we're not gonna cry.
We'll just hold it on inside
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But tears are not a weakness.
WE also think that when we cry
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is not joy because we have tears
of joy, we have tears of sorrow
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So some people think, oh they're
crying because you're sorry. No
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I cry when I'm happy.
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He talked about When He
touched me. I cry when I'm happy
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I cry when I'm sad. I think
that's what we have to be able
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to let our young men know. Tears
are you can be happy and cry
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you can be sad and cry. I mean
so just bein able to let it out
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A good friend of mine said
to me, the tears come when you
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can't do any more push-ups.
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You know you wanna get down
and ok I'm gonna do some more
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push-ups but there's sometimes
you just can't do push-ups
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And your body is going to
release, it's gonna release
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the tears and sometimes if
you keep holdin that thing in
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them tears gotta come out
00:26:08.73\00:26:11.13
and sometimes you're like
everything's all over your shirt
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you have to let it out,
it's natural so let it out
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You can also have fun with
it too, cause there's times like
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you watch a movie with
your wife. She wants to watch a
00:26:20.68\00:26:23.01
girlie movie and you know,
you know it touches your heart
00:26:23.04\00:26:27.18
you're like, I got somethin in
my eye, I got somethin in my eye
00:26:27.22\00:26:29.88
You get it and I got somethin in
my nose. I'm not cryin you know
00:26:29.92\00:26:32.99
we do that, we do that though
00:26:33.02\00:26:35.26
I learned how to do
it, I just let it go man
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I'm havin a good
time cryin, cryin with it
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I remember when my dad
died. When my dad passed away we
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had a funeral. I'm there
and I'm saying, you know what
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you gotta be strong,
you goin to be strong
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Well I don't know at what
point in time something happened
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And it was a good thing my
wife was there, I just went down
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And she was able to
grab me. So lettin it out
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lettin it out I
think is a purifier
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just helps to get the stress off
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and we need to let
our young men know that
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Man it's amazing what emotions
do to you but we gotta pick this
00:27:15.53\00:27:22.00
this up another time because
we're completely out of time
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To our viewers, listen
it's ok to have emotions.
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Our men out there, you
would not lose your man card
00:27:29.18\00:27:31.91
if you shed a little tear.
You will not be less as a man
00:27:31.95\00:27:36.22
if you cry. To the
fathers, teach your children
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how to cry, how to
cope with their emotions
00:27:40.66\00:27:44.39
because it will literally mean
life or death to them sometimes
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Jesus wept and He made you.
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You are not above
shedding a couple of tears
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So please, it's ok to cry
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