Emotions
Our family is going through a season of change. I'm off of work for the week, enjoying a little time at home in Minnesota with my family. My older sister, brother-in-law, and nephew left to start medical school in Missouri early this morning. My 19-year-old brother is preparing to move to Virginia for school next month, and I head back to Michigan next week. There are little pieces of my heart all over the place, and it's a time full of so many mixed emotions! Thankfully, each emotion we experience is an invitation to enter into and experience another piece of God's heart. We serve a God who not only created emotion, but who is also emotional. He wants us to come to him (not run from him) when we feel new emotions. John 3:16 - God loves Exodus 34:14 - God is jealous Psalm 37:13 - God laughs John 11:35 - God cries Psalm 38:1 - God gets angry Numbers 11:1 - God feels disappointment Matthew 14:14 - God feels compassion Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 - There's a time for every emoti