A Prayer for When You Have Cried for No Reason

Father, the tears came again today and I cannot tell You why. Nothing happened. No bad news, no argument, just a sudden welling up while I was standing at the sink, and then I could not stop. I feel foolish crying over nothing, and even more alone because I cannot explain it.

I confess I keep demanding a reason from myself, as if pain has to show its paperwork before it is allowed to exist. When I find none, I call myself dramatic and bury it deeper.

So I bring these unexplained tears to You, who understand them even when I do not. You do not ask me to justify my sorrow before You will sit with it.

Hold the grief I cannot name. Let me cry without scolding myself for it. And give me the courage to mention this to someone safe, because tears that keep arriving for no reason may be my body asking for the care I keep refusing to give it.

Your word says You keep track of all my sorrows and collect my tears in Your bottle. Not one of them falls unnoticed, not even the ones I cannot account for.

I give You this strange, wordless ache without explanation. You catch every tear, even the mysterious ones, and You are not impatient with me. Cry with me, then carry me. Amen.