Why Do Women Cry?

Recently, I came across this poem about the strength of women and I would like to share it with you, as I think it sums women up very well. We have to be strong even through the pain that life can bring us.

Why Do Women Cry?

Why are you crying?" he asked his Mum. "Because I'm a woman" she told him.
"I don't understand," he said. His Mum just hugged him and said, "And you never will…"

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"
"All women cry for no reason" was all his dad could say…

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry…
Finally he put in a call to God; when God got on the phone, the man said,
"God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said…
"When I made woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world; yet gentle enough to give comfort…
I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children…
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining…
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when their child has hurt them very badly…

This same sensitivity helps her to make a child's injury feel better and shares in their teenagers anxieties and fears…
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly. I gave her a tear to shed, it's hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed. It's her only weakness…
It's a tear for mankind…"

Author Unknown