Quote from BY WAY OF APPLICATION by Chuck Swindoll

Our culture is constantly ending the message that big boys don’t cry; they are to be tough, not tender. The mistake our culture makes is seeing toughness and tenderness as mutually exclusive qualities. Two of history’s “manliest” men, David and Jesus, displayed moments of great tenderness. David weeps openly with Jonathan in 1 Samuel 20:41 and repeatedly throughout the Psalms (6:6, 69:10). Jesus weeps over the death of his friend Lazarus (John 11:35) and over the unrepentant city of Jerusalem (Luke 19:41). How often do you children see you being vulnerable and tender? If they don’t see those qualities in you, where will the learn them?