What are the tears that please God

What are the tears that please God

The Son of God says to Saint Brigida: «This is the reason why I do not grant whoever you see shed tears and give much to the poor for my honor. First of all I answer you: where two fountains gush and one flows into the other, if one of the two is cloudy, the other will become so and then who can drink the water? The same happens with tears: many cry, but in several cases simply because they are prone to crying. Sometimes the tribulations of the world and the fear of hell make these tears impure, as they do not come from the love of God. However, these tears are appreciated because they are due to the thought of the benefits of God, to the meditation of one's sins and love of God. Tears of this kind raise the soul from earth to heaven and regenerate man by elevating him to eternal life, because they are bearers of a double spiritual generation. The fleshly generation brings man from impurity to purity, mourns the damages and failures of the flesh and joyfully bears the pains of the world. The children of this type of person are not children of tears, because with these tears eternal life is not acquired; instead gives birth to a son of tears the generation that deplores the sins of the soul and makes sure that his son does not offend God. A mother like this is closer to her own son than she who generated him in the flesh, because only with this generation one can acquire the blessed life ». Book IV, 13

Like friends of God, they don't have to worry about their tribulations

«God does not forget the love he has for us and in every moment, given the ingratitude of men, he shows his pity, because he resembles a good farrier who in some moments heats the iron, in others it cools it. In the same way, God, an excellent worker who created the world from nothing, showed his love for Adam and his posterity. But the men became so cold that, esteeming God less than nothing, they committed abominable and enormous sins. Thus, after showing his mercy and imparting his salutary advice, God gave vent to the fury of his justice with the flood. After the flood, God made a covenant with Abraham, showed him the signs of his love and guided his whole race with miracles and wonders. God also gave the law to the people with his own mouth and confirmed his words and commandments with manifest signs. The people spent a certain period of time in vanities, cooling down and letting themselves go to so many follies as to worship idols; then God, desiring to turn on and warm again the men who had become cold, sent his Son to earth, who taught us the way to heaven and showed us the true humanity to follow. Now, although there are too many who have forgotten him, or even neglected him, he shows and manifests his words of mercy ... God is eternal and incomprehensible and in him are justice, eternal reward and a mercy that goes beyond our thoughts. Otherwise, if God had not shown his justice to the first angels, how would we know this justice which judges all things fairly? And if moreover he had not had man's mercy by creating and freeing him with infinite signs, how would he know his goodness and his immense and perfect love? So, being eternal God, so is his justice, to which nothing must be added or taken away, as instead is done with the man who thinks he is doing my work or my design in this or that way, in this or on that day. Now, when God has mercy or does justice, he manifests them completely, because in his eyes the past, the present and the future have always been present. For this reason, God's friends must patiently remain in his love, without worrying even if they see those who are tied to the things of the world to prosper; God, in fact, is like a good washerwoman who washes dirty clothes between the waves and the waves, so that, with the movement of the water, they become white and clean and carefully avoids the crests of the waves, for fear that they may submerge the clothes themselves . Similarly in this life God places his friends among the storms of tribulations and meanness, so that, through them, they are purified for eternal life, making sure that they do not sink into some excessive unhappiness or an intolerable punishment ". Book III, 30