I saw tears as almost the enemy of my joy, rather than a conduit of joy.

Because I think believing there's no pit so deep that I won't find his presence there, took the fear from me.

I sometimes wonder if the very tears we weep is not the water source that fertilize the seeds that we sow. Even though I might be

in absolute agony, by His grace, I still got one or two, three seeds to sow. It took me far too

long to learn to bring my tears to God. Yes. But when I did, instead of there being a, you know, a lecture or shame, there was an

embrace.

Access More

Hey, hey, back porches. My name is Allison Allen. I am the 5'12 spiritual wingwoman to Lisa Harper for Back Porch Theology. And I just want to say something, Lisa. I have loved this series. I mean, we've been in mountains and we've been in valleys. And of course, we're using them to sort of talk about those high points and those low points in a believer's life. And today we're going to be

talking about a valley, but we're not giving it away yet. Okay? We are going to talk about road tripping for a minute, but you've got to go with us. We're going to get there. We promise. But you know what? Most of you're probably in your car right now. You're in the pickup line or you're going to get some groceries. So just imagine that you're

traveling with us on a bit of a road trip. Okay, Lees, I want to talk to you. I'm going to ask you

actually about maybe the craziest, most recent road trip you've had. And I have a follow-up question

to that. Okay, I, it comes to mine immediately. I was at an event in Missouri, and I was supposed to

fly that night to an event in Houston, and then get up really, really early for super, super, I think

it was a 6 a.m. Delta flight from Houston to Minneapolis for another event. And we get to the airport

in Missouri, and this is, you know, this is

Friday afternoon. Yeah. I'm supposed to be in Houston. Friday midday. And you know how you just

get this sinking feeling as the flight keeps being delayed? It's not a huge airport where we were

in Missouri. And sure enough, it's canceled. And I thought, I don't know how to get from here to Houston.

And then from Houston in 12 hours to flip around and get to Minneapolis.

And not that I needed to be at those conferences, but when your giant head is on the poster, you feel a certain sense of responsibility.

Long story short, the church I had just been at had this huge studio, and they were able to beam me to Houston, which was awesome.

And they didn't know because you're on these huge screens.

...