Rend Your Heart
12 "Even now," declares the LORD,"return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning."
13 Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.
14 Who knows? He may turn and have pity
and leave behind a blessing--
grain offerings and drink offerings
for the LORD your God.
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
declare a holy fast,
call a sacred assembly.
16 Gather the people,
consecrate the assembly;
bring together the elders,
gather the children,
those nursing at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room
and the bride her chamber.
17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD,
weep between the temple porch and the altar.
Let them say, "Spare your people, O LORD.
Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,
a byword among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
'Where is their God?' "
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
I like what you said about weeping. Clearly there is a dimension to weeping where we are the cause of the weeping, not the victim. Lent is a season where we see the weeping that we have cause and to draw near in repentance and seek reconciliation. I resonate with the selflessness nature of your reflection.