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Originally Posted by Shadow

Why Women Cry
A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?"

"Because I'm a woman," she told him.



"I don't understand," he said.

His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."



Later the little boy asked his father,

"Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"



"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.



The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry...



Finally he put in a call to God.

When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"



God said "When I made the woman she had to be special.



I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort.



I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and

the rejection that many times comes from her children.



I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.



I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all

circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.



I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults

and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.



I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.



And finally, I gave her a tear to shed.

This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."



"You see my son," said God,

"the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,

the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.



The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes,

because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

Wow, I cant believe that I just happened to look at this thread right now....as I barely ever go to "off topic" discussion forum.....but I am just having a really really sad time right now crying my eyes out over missing my parents, who have both passed at ages way too young......my mom was the sweetest woman ever, and passed away in my home while actually caring for me and my family after I had back surgery....I miss her so much....everyday but exspecially today, and my dad died last Feb as I sat and watched him make a clear headed decision to turn off the machines that were keeping him alive because he just could not do it anymore, and today it is ALL just hitting me so hard that I was actually going to start a thread about how sad I was today and then I came upon this......thank you for posting it....it is just beautiful and so so true. happy mothers day to all, and please if your parents are still alive...hold them close....I spent my day at the cemetary and I would not wish that on anyone.....God Bless..
Tami