GOD,
Collect our tears
Tears of sadness
tears of joy
Tears of anxiety
nervous tears
Tears that don’t know why they run like rivers down the face
Gracious God,
collect our tears in your bottle
And pour them back on us as life-giving water!

- Safiyah Fosua
The Africana Worship Book: Year B
From p. 178 of The Africana Worship Book: Year B,
edited by Valerie Bridgeman Davis and Safiyah Fosua.
Copyright © 2007 by Discipleship Resources