Mourning requires our realization of a spiritual need that directs us toward other people. What makes us sad? We usually are sad because we need someone or something; or, we lost someone or something. Most of my sadness revolves around me and what I don’t have. Now let us look at what made Jesus sad.

Mat 23:37 (NIV) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.