“A newly sober woman shared her fears with us between her heartbreaking sobbing. Another member later shared that her TEARS were proof of the enlightenment around recovering souls.”
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us.
— Page 133 Big Book
