St Monica

 St. Monica

St. Monica had a wayward child. 

He left the church in which he was baptized 

And went off to a life of pleasure

Following one cult after another. 

And what did she do?

She did not preach or scold or admonish her son. 

Rather she wept tears for him. 

Tears that God saw

And tears that eventually touched the heart of her son. 

And through those tears

Her son came back to the Church and became

St. Augustine. 

Perhaps the greatest theologian in the history of the Church. 

So never underestimate the power of tears.