What makes you cry?

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preschoolteacher24

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Onions, and I plucked a nose hair once.... that get the tears going, but seriously

Jesus broke my heart over the plight of prostitutes here in town. Especially for one named Wanda.. I had to run out of church and give her a hug!!
lol i forgot onions... haha wow that does make me cry... and u said plucked hair.. woooo on a role buddy...
 
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Jullianna

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#22
Children and elderly praying, praising and worshipping

When one of my foster dogs gets adopted.
I understand about your dogs! All of my dogs are rescued dogs. I have two outside, one inside, three fish and a bottomfeeder. :) I'm trying to find a home for a cat right now.
 
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Jullianna

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#23
Praise and worship most definitely makes me cry. Just the awesomeness of being heart to heart with the Lord in that moment is a feeling like no other.

I remember the first time I sang in church. I was 13 and scared to death. I sang In the Garden. The tears started to fall about halfway through the song and my lips were shaking, but I did it. For Him.
 

seoulsearch

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Wow, there are some really exceptional posts here... Thanks to everyone for sharing, I've enjoyed reading such personal stories.

Although I'm a very emotional person, I don't tend to cry very much at all. HOWEVER, I put off watching "Passion of the Christ" for probably two years after it was out because I knew it would totally break my heart. As could be predicted... when I finally saw it... it was one of those moments that you're crying so hard you can't breathe. Took me a few days to recover from that one, especially the part when someone pointed out that Jesus was moving TOWARDS His cross... when anyone else would have tried to run away.

I also would still cry if I rewatched the original "Rescuers"--particularly the part where the little orphan girl Penny tells her only friend (Rufus the cat) that a couple came to the orphanage that day... and, "Picked out a little red-haired girl instead... she was a lot prettier than me." I also have feelings of extreme tear-jerking sadness when Penny tells her kidnapper, Medusa, "I have to get back to the orphanage... so I can get 'dopted..." and Medusa coldly replies, "What makes you think anyone would want to adopt a homely little girl like you?"

Being an adopted child myself, I simultaneously try to keep from crying buckets... and have to fight the urge to keep myself from wanting to seriously bop Medusa over the head.
 

seoulsearch

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Sorry for the double post, everyone... I was just thinking about the fact that in 1994, I actually did go back to my original orphanage. I was with a tour for adoptees and we were able to visit the children's rooms a few times while we were there.

The first time, I held a little girl, about 6 months old (which is how old I was when I was adopted.) One of the house mothers let me take her for about 10 minutes... I talked to her and sang to her (poor thing was probably traumatized), but when we had to leave, I gave her back to the caretaker... and that little girl kicked and screamed as if the world was ending... she wanted to come back to ME and was actively pushing the house mother away. Not having children of my own, I was shocked that a child so small could feel a bond in so little of a time, even with a culture and language barrier.

The second time I got to meet a set of identical twin girls who were 4 years old. One twin was extremely happy, but did NOT want to be picked up or approached at all. The other was the exact opposite--I didn't even notice there were twins present until I saw this second girl clinging to a doorpost, looking up at everyone. She was very obviously used to being overlooked for the more outgoing children.

I knelt down with her and talked to her at eye level (this was in Korea--I only speak English, so the poor girl had NO idea what I was saying), and gently picked her up. I had to physically put her hands on my shoulders and as soon as I did, she put her head down next to mine and wrapped both arms around me as if she hadn't been picked up in a lifetime, but always longed to be. I was totally heartbroken. Even writing this is making me a little shaky inside. And when we left, this little girl followed me to the entrance way with sad eyes, looking up at me and held out her arms as if to say, "Why are you leaving me? I'll do anything if you'll just take me where you're going." Needless to say, I cried continuously every night for the next three nights.

I asked the people there about sponsoring her and her twin--turns out, they were already adopted, praise God, and just waiting on all the papers to go through. It was the most awful feeling though... wishing you could leave any material possession you owned behind in order to take as many of those kids home as you could.
 
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zeroturbulence

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Wow, there are some really exceptional posts here... Thanks to everyone for sharing, I've enjoyed reading such personal stories.

Although I'm a very emotional person, I don't tend to cry very much at all. HOWEVER, I put off watching "Passion of the Christ" for probably two years after it was out because I knew it would totally break my heart. As could be predicted... when I finally saw it... it was one of those moments that you're crying so hard you can't breathe. Took me a few days to recover from that one, especially the part when someone pointed out that Jesus was moving TOWARDS His cross... when anyone else would have tried to run away.

I also would still cry if I rewatched the original "Rescuers"--particularly the part where the little orphan girl Penny tells her only friend (Rufus the cat) that a couple came to the orphanage that day... and, "Picked out a little red-haired girl instead... she was a lot prettier than me." I also have feelings of extreme tear-jerking sadness when Penny tells her kidnapper, Medusa, "I have to get back to the orphanage... so I can get 'dopted..." and Medusa coldly replies, "What makes you think anyone would want to adopt a homely little girl like you?"

Being an adopted child myself, I simultaneously try to keep from crying buckets... and have to fight the urge to keep myself from wanting to seriously bop Medusa over the head.
You know what made me cry even more about the Passion? When I found out that during that whole time, all the angels in heaven watched as their Lord was being murdered before their eyes and at that moment when he died thier grief was so great that their outcry shook the earth, split the rocks and tore the curtain in the temple into two (Matthew 27:51). There is a mountain in Italy with a wide crevice running completely from top to bottom and they say it split at the moment of Jesus' death. Here is a pic of it:

 
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Dude653

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it doesnt take much to make me cry, im very tender hearted... I cried in a Star Trek book when Captain Kirk's wife died
 
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Jullianna

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That's a beautiful picture :)
 
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Tinker1019

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#30
Pretty much anything nowadays.
 
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evelina

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#31
i cry when....
.... im happy
.... i feel loved
....i watch the movie "sweet november"
..... i feel alone
..... i miss friends and family
...... i make mistakes
.....i get something that i dont deserve
...... i remember good times
there is a big list what makes me cry ....

BTW: I HATE TO CRY IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE / and i get headaches when i cry ;)
 
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Ramon

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#32
My dad, big time.. Everytime I hear his voice on the phone Im always teary eyed... Papa's girl...
Very interesting comment here. It made me think of God.

Well, I know the main thing that makes me cry is someone coming into the kingdom. And another thing is when I get a personal message from the Lord. For a long time I will go without hearing a personal message, things like he is pleased in what I do and such. But when we are always ready to hear what the Lord is saying, then it is so beautiful when he takes time out to speak to us personally. May Jesus bless you!
 

musiclover123

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When I'm angry.
When I see friends suffer but can't help them.
When I think about the people I care about most being gone.
When I watched my dog die a suffering death without being able to do anything.
When I see children worship.
The song How He Loves gets me every time.
This video: YouTube - Logan, the Sky Angel Cowboy
 
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truffleshuffle

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#35
Napoleon Dynamite when the bully stomps Napoleon's tots in his pocket.
School of Rock when Jack Black has a headache and the runs at the same time.
Goonies when Data hits himself in the face with his boxing glove.
and
Dumb and Dumber when their pet's head falls off. =/
 
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NodMyHeadLikeYeah

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Napoleon Dynamite when the bully stomps Napoleon's tots in his pocket.
School of Rock when Jack Black has a headache and the runs at the same time.
Goonies when Data hits himself in the face with his boxing glove.
and
Dumb and Dumber when their pet's head falls off. =/

Baby ruuuuuuuuth
 
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SubCruceSalus

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#37
I cry when the rum's all gone......again.....
 
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Jullianna

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#38
Well believe it or not I do have a serious side.........About a year after my grandpa, died around 2003, I went up to my grannies, she had a neighbor that wanted to buy my grandpa's boat it was a 1970 Aristocraft. So I went up there and took the boat and the neighbor to the lake by my grannies house and put her in the water. Now this boat hadn't been out in a while and I was wondering if it would even fire, the last time me and gramps had her out she had a little trouble staying running....I turned the key and she busted off and purred like a kitten....I backed her away from the dock and idled out past the no wake buoys. I was worried it would cut out or run rough so I eased into the throttle....she never missed a lick...that ole boat just stood up on the water and planed out like she had been built the day before. I just let her go, the water was like glass and the ole girl was just gliding across the water....the memories flashed back as me and the ole Aristocraft skimmed across that lake we traveled all the way to the dam and I turned around and headed back...even thought the neighbor man was sitting next too me I was alone except for the many many memories I had made with gramps in that ole boat....well I got it back to the dock and loaded the boat up and took it back to grannies. As I was driving home I was heading west of Mannford and I just teared up. The girl I was dating at the time was riding in the pick up with me and never new I was crying......(thats probably why she got a coffee table instead of a engagement ring for christmas!!) A little side not to the story, my granny called me about a week after that when the neighbor tried to take the boat out to the lake it got cracked in the hull..........so the last time the boat was ever on the water was that day me and the ole girl took a trip down memory lane...
Hommer, I was very moved by your story. Loved fishing with my dad. Got pretty misty eyed myself with this one. :)
 

Hommer

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Thanks for the compliments everyone..........I do miss him he was a good man and a great fisherman....and most of all a good friend.........sad part is I dont think they make them like they did back then...........