“Gonna run this race to my final step, / Gonna sing this song to my final breath, / And let the weight of this world go. / Gonna be no fear, gonna be no pain. / And when I see that smile on my Savior’s face, / I won’t be walking, / I’ll be running […]
“We are making ourselves sick with our coping. We think that in our checking out and numbing out, we are relaxing, but the truth is, we are missing the gifts of God that are meant to keep us in delightful relationship with Him.”- Jennifer Allen Jennifer Allen concludes Chapter 5 of Untangle Your Emotions with […]
“We can engage directly with that [overwhelming feeling] and take it to God, or we can resist it, trying to evade what feels uncomfortable, embarrassing, maybe even painful. Often we choose the latter option — mostly because we’re afraid that if we engage directly, we’ll crumble under the weight of our feelings.”- Jennifer Allen In […]
“Maybe life is so painful right now that numb actually sounds appealing to you. If so, I want you to know we have a God . . . who not only feels for Himself but comes close to us when we’re feeling all our feelings too. God is waiting for us to come to Him […]
“We’re all starving for compassion, and Jesus wants to provide it. When Jesus walked the earth, story after story of His ministry confirmed how much He cared about each person He came across. . . . All throughout Scripture, we see evidence of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit feeling lots […]
“Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God. Just like your emotions were designed by God, the patterns and ways we are to live and thrive were also designed by God. You were built for obedience to a loving Father. The Fall disrupted that, but life is found […]
“We come into the world not primarily as people who think but as people who feel. Emotions flood through our bodies and souls — our mind, will, and emotions — reminding us of this truth. They don’t stop at assigned places, and when we do try to stem their flow, we fail.”- Jennifer Allen In […]
“There is an entire field of mathematical study devoted to the study of knots. It’s called, well, ‘knot theory.’ . . . By simply studying a knot . . . [smart people] could identify certain characteristics that would ensure that a few simple steps could be used to undo the knot. . . . They […]
“When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human. We transform into empty shells with smiley faces painted on them.”- Peter Scazzero, pastor and author, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality As Jennifer Allen continues Chapter 2 of Untangle Your Emotions, she describes a broad spectrum of response to feelings. […]
“My feelings were trying to tell me something important, but I thought they were attempting to take over. And I wasn’t about to let them take control. Your feelings aren’t trying to control you — they are trying to tell you something.“- Jennifer Allen In Chapter 2 (“All Tangled Up”) of Untangle Your Emotions, Jennifer […]
“Feelings can’t be beat back, by the way. Even if you’re the most effective stuffer ever to live, the very best at stuffing feelings way down deep, so far down you believe they can never be found. I’m here to tell you that those feelings don’t go quietly.”- Jennifer Allen In Chapter 1 (“Where Did […]
“You can’t go to the cross with just your head and not your heart. It doesn’t work that way. Calvary’s not a mental trip. It’s not an intellectual exercise. It’s not a divine calculation or a cold theological principle. . . . God, may we never be so ‘educated,’ may we never be so ‘mature,’ […]