dailydatewithgod

We are all gifted with a wide array of human emotions.  I didn’t know much about them growing up because I was quick to make them wrong, especially big ones.  When I was done making them wrong, I would numb out.  As a young child I felt things deeply and apparently was so demonstrative with my emotions that I was accused of being a melodramatic actress named Sara Bernhardt.  I learned that emotions were best kept under wraps.  Dealing with the madness of incest, I was very angry but did not have a place to express it.  This is not about blaming my experience growing up.  I recognize that we cannot teach what we do not know. Anger is one of many feelings we can have.  God must have seen a purpose to it or it would not be in our repertoire.  Society has all kinds of stories about what it means to feel anger or get angry like the saying ‘Nice girls don’t get angry”   I know from my experiences on our daily dates, God does not label or invalidate any particular feelings.  Just typing the title of this post made me uneasy. God makes room for any and all emotions.  This gives me hope that we can learn to be with them the way God is. which provided

My prayer for us is the willingness to be open to what God’s purposes are for all our feelings, even anger, today.