S3: Name (Untangle Your Emotions)
Untangle Your Emotions
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After noticing what’s going on with our bodies, the next step is naming what we’re actually feeling. Even if you’ve treated your emotions like “those that must not be named” for fear that naming them makes them more real, naming is a gift you’ve been given by God who names everything and everyone as an example of its value.
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S4: Feel (Untangle Your Emotions)
You can feel all your feelings and not sin. And you can feel all your
feelings and sin. But feeling a feeling in and of itself is not a sin.
Feeling your feelings is an invitation to “with confidence draw near to
throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (... -
S5: Share (Untangle Your Emotions)
Whenever you hide from vulnerability to avoid being misunderstood,
wronged, rejected, or hurt, you also keep yourself from the good things of
compassion, love, and realizing you’re not the only one. Sharing brings us
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S6: Choose (Untangle Your Emotions)
We’ve come to the point in this process where, once we notice what we feel, name what we feel, actually feel it and share it, we have to decide what to do with it. First, we choose God. Next, we choose the raw unvarnished truth.
We must be honest about where we are and our desperate need for God.