Obedience and vulnerability

So, when I looked up the word 'cry', and found a bunch of different purposes for tears...confession, healing, rescue/deliverance, intercession, prophecy and dicipline....can you imagine crying out to God daily? Like, literally crying?? Tears aren't always bad, that's for sure.
What about times where people don't cry? Where they've numbed out all feeling?
Sometimes when you've been hurt the tendency is to harden your heart so you'll never be hurt again...but the only result of hardening your heart is to turn into a cold, numb, arrogant, beligerant dumb-face who steps over other people to get their own way, increasing the number of hurt-hardened people in the world.
I don't want to be a bully, and I don't want to be one who gives in to the mentality that tears are for 'weak' people. Soft, maybe. But weak? NEVER!
Three teens came to the alter this sunday morning in tears and in prayer. Now, that takes courage! There was no invitation to come, no one railing from the pulpit about various sins that would dash their souls to the pit of hell. We were simply worshipping God, and people were moved by the Spirit, and felt His leading to come forward and do business with the LORD. Now THAT'S obedience. Praise the LORD.

"Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To OBEY is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams" 1 Sam 15:22