Mourning and tears can lead to joy and comfort through God. While sadness is normally avoided, sorrow and tears are valuable when suffered for the sake of God and others. Those who mourn will be comforted, as God is the God of all comfort who comforts people in their troubles so they can comfort others. Mourning makes joy by bringing people closer to God, who can't be won through other means but through dedicated sorrow for others.

1. How can
MOURNING
make joy?

3. Jesus wept.
John 11:35

4. Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4

5. Praise be to the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
compassion and the God of all
comfort, who comforts us in all our
troubles, so that we can comfort
those in any trouble with the comfort
we ourselves receive from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4

6. Do you like sadness and tears? You have
always thought tears and sadness were to
be avoided, but is that the right
concept? Sorrow and tears can be the
most valuable things when you suffer for
the sake of God and mankind. They are
the two tools you can use to win God. You can't win
Him with money, knowledge or power, but with
dedicated sorrow for others.
Father Moon, 1st March 1978

7. We are the
Church of Tears