All The Things

I met with my Erica last Friday.

We still meet once a month.

Remember, she's the one whose job it is to save my life...

No biggie.

We talked about feelings and emotions and how had it can be for me to feel them, rather than shoving them in that closet that I had for 41 years.

We talked about showing myself grace.

That closet probably saved my life on many occasions.

That doesn't mean I should have a closet now - I don't need it anymore.

I'm now strong enough, and have all of the tools necessary to feel.

But, I have love and compassion for the girl who shoved everything in that closet.

I've been doing research this week on feelings and emotions in the scriptures.

There are 127 different emotions that are brought up in the scriptures.

Jesus has emotions and feelings.

Remember, he wept.

He wept.

He was LONELY in the Garden of Gethsemane.

He was heartbroken watching his mother as she mourned his body hanging on the cross.

He KNOWS what feelings and emotions are, and no matter what scripture we read that pertains to them, there is always a concluding statement or statements about what we can do and who we go to when we have them.

Christ.