Upon seeing Mary, Jesus does not respond with the analytical words he spoke to Martha. He does not say a word. “Jesus wept.” When Richard Hayes, the famed theologian at Duke, responded to one of my lectures, he put it this way: “At Bethany, the Incarnate Word of God stood wordless.”
Upon seeing Mary’s tears, Jesus wept.
Why?
Why did he weep? All he had to do is to take Mary by her hand, go to the tomb and call to Lazarus to rise from the grave. He could have told her, “see, ye of little faith!”
Why did Jesus waste his time weeping? His tears served no rational purpose, gained no pragmatic results.
My friend Steve Garber told me, standing in front of Charis-Kairos (The Tears of Christ) that he would not be a Christian apart from those tears. Jesus’ wasteful tears.
Jesus’ tears are still with us.
Physically in the air.
We breathe them every day.
Image source & complete (and remarkable) article, entitled, Tears for Fragile Emanations: A Lenten Reflection, https://makotofujimura.com/writings/tears-for-fragile-emanations-lenten-reflection-2014
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