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  • When the Spirit Heals with the Gift of Tears

    February 10, 2025 /

    I didn’t expect to start crying, but I did.  I was leading a healing retreat.  I made the mistake of going off-script.  The Holy Spirit took over.  What I experienced then is often called the Gift of Tears.  It is a gift from the Holy Spirit where a person is overwhelmed with God’s love. In my retreat talk, the Holy Spirit prompted me to describe a time when I was at the bedside of my dying father-in-law.  The last few days of his life he was mostly incoherent.  But in his final lucid moment, he turned to me and said, “You’re a good man, Scott.”  Soon after he died.   These…

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