Finding God In Our Feelings
"The celebration of Resurrection Sunday stayed with many of us all week. However, life rushes in: distresses and challenges of the day to day do not disappear. We are flooded with all kinds of feelings and realities during the week that we have to navigate. Some of us are in hard seasons. For most of us, life is neither all good nor all bad. Often great and wonderful things as well as challenging and painful things happen at the same time. How do we live into the Resurrection and victory of our Lord, Jesus Christ, when the hard and painful things in our lives cause us to feel the opposite, especially when our hearts may be crying out. How do we feel about our feelings and emotions? Looking at the illustration of King David, writer of many psalms, we have feelings and emotions, as made in the image of God, and manifested by the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ...."