Crying for No Reason?

  I've been feeling rather weepy this past week and I've had no idea why.  No, it's not my hormones or "that" time of the month.  You could tell me, "Your shoelaces are untied," and I'd weep.  You could say, "Yo Cass those potato chips are legit, but I ain't so keen on them pretzels.." and I'd sob in the fetal position.  You could even say, "I love blueberries" and I'd wail because the strawberries were left all alone.  (you could, however, say you wanted to punch a kitty in the face and i wouldn't necessarily object.)
      Needless to say, I've felt almost like I was in mourning for something and I wasn't sure what exactly that was.  I started to talk to a few of my friends and I realized I wasn't alone.  They said they felt the same way, almost like they lost someone they held dear.  And something occurred to me.   Maybe I wasn't being a fruity pie or needing hormone therapy.  Maybe we were all mourning what has been happening in the world around us.   And Maybe we all are sensing a change that is coming in our lives.    Maybe all this behavior is actually the pre-ceding emotions right before we give birth to something new and leave the old way of life behind.
        I've heard that right before it's time to give birth, your emotions heighten.  In fact, they say "just take all  the emotions you've felt over the past eight months, intensify them, and then combine them.  You may be tired of being big, tired of being tired, and very ready to get the pregnancy over with."  Many woman say that a few days before they gave birth they begin to cry all the time for no apparent reason.  Sound familiar?


"All around us we observe a pregnant creation.  The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs.  But it's not only around us;   it's within us.  The Spirit of God is arousing us within.  We're also feeling the birth pangs.  These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance.  That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother.  We are enlarged in the waiting.  We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us.  But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.  Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right along side helping us along.  If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter.  He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.  He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God.  That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good."  Romans 8:22-28 msg


This scripture says it all!   
So maybe I'm not that crazy.  
 we are observing pain in the world right now, and maybe we are feeling the birth pangs within.  So maybe instead of just crying we cry out to God for help.  Help for our world, help for our nation, and help for us to push through into the next season without fear, anxiety, worry, or doubt.  Maybe He doesn't want to do it alone.  Maybe He wants to co-labor with us?