"The Gift of Weeping"

Today's service was led by Rev. Nicholas Rundle, The Uniting Church Chaplain at the Royal Adelaide Hospital - recorded on Sunday, 6th October, 2019 in the Unitarian Meeting House in Adelaide. Nicholas's sermon was called "The Gift of Tears" which began with a reading - by Barbara Willow - of a poem: "An absolutely Ordinary Rainbow" from Les Murray's Anthology of poems - "The Weatherboard Cathedral" and a quote from Fr. Matta El Meskeen, a Coptic Orthodox Monk who led the revival of the Coptic Church in Egypt - "It is hard to speak of tears. Are not tears a sign of the limitation of speech, when in bewilderment, the tongue fails, the heart speaks and the eyes utter tears?". Nicholas contemplates the strength in expressing grief through weeping - in contrast to societal attitudes that so often see it as a weakness.