Prayer, regardless of the faith to which a person belongs, implies sincerity. Turning to God, people share the most intimate and painful, and also ask for help in difficult periods of their lives.
Crying while praying - is it okay?
There are many different reasons why people feel like crying while praying. Of course, the emotional characteristics of the believer also matter - for those who are distinguished by increased impressionability and lability, and are also under the influence of severe stress, prayer can often be accompanied by a similar reaction.
According to the clergy, prayer should come from the very heart and be sincere - a person, turning to God, appears before him “in full view,” so there is no point in hiding something.
As you know, people also cry out of fear - after all, turning to God, many ask for help. Describing the current situation (a serious illness, problems in the family or personal life, as well as any life troubles leading to strong feelings), a person sometimes experiences a whole range of feelings - confusion, fear, panic, hopelessness, longing and despair. Thus, it becomes clear that, unfortunately, there are too many reasons for crying.
After praying, many people immediately feel relief - people, believing that they will definitely be helped from above, no longer so acutely perceive the heavy burden that has piled on them lately. In this case, they may want to cry already from relief and joy, and also because they now have hope. According to psychologists, after speaking out, you can reconsider your attitude to a particular problem - i.e. By sharing your experiences and voicing them during prayer, a person can feel much easier.
“Opening up” for many people, especially those who have recently come to faith, is sometimes quite difficult. And “having turned the soul inside out”, then to experience the desire to cry is a completely natural feeling.
Why are tears welling up in my eyes?
At the same time, when praying, believers not only count on help in their problems. Repenting of his own sins, a person can remember far from the most pleasant moments of his own. Sincerely repenting for their actions, as well as for their words and thoughts, and asking for forgiveness for this, tears begin to well up in the eyes of many believers. You should not be afraid of this - having cleared the soul of resentment, evil and everything painful and oppressive, you can fill it with bright thoughts and live on, trying to become better, kinder and happier. And then, when in prayer a person already thanks God for help, for everything in his life, an irresistible desire to cry may arise again, but from happiness - from the fact that the understanding comes: as long as a person is alive, he is capable of much.
