My wife Teresa sometimes cries when she prays. I told her not to be embarrassed because the Bible tells us in Psalm 56:8 that God catches all our tears in a bottle and writes them down. If it is that important to God, then don’t worry about it. I don’t know if this is intended to be a metaphor, or if God physically catches them and puts them in a bottle and writes them down. I suspect it is a metaphor . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2024/07/tears-in-the-hand/