{"id":16133,"date":"2026-06-01T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16133"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:43:15","slug":"tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16133\/tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yesterday I was lying down with Jack and I noticed he had a little speck of dirt right in the corner of his eye. It would have hurt him if I tried to get it at that time so I left it alone but I also knew it would hurt him if it went into his eye. A little while later, he cried and I noticed that the speck had gone down to his cheek with his tears. It made me think about things we go through in life that bring sorrow and that make us cry, and that through that pain, Jesus washes out things about ourselves that shouldn\u2019t be there and may otherwise hurt us if they stick around. There is a cleansing that can happen in painful life situations, and I think that\u2019s the point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love you.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anna<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>That is so true, Anna.\u00a0 I have seen it and I have experienced it.\u00a0 The book of Hebrews (5:8) even says that Jesus learned through the things he suffered.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for that.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Yesterday I was lying down with Jack and I noticed he had a little speck of dirt right in the corner of his eye. It would have hurt him if I tried to get it at that time so I left it alone but I also knew it would hurt him if it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16134,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133\/revisions\/16134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}