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 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."