“I don’t anticipate a future for any of us where all our emotions are perfectly tucked into the right spaces in our bodies and minds, perfectly in control, perfectly expressed, and perfectly understood. I think it’s important to start with some honesty about that. “- Jennifer Allen In Chapter 7 (“A Vision for Something Better”) […]
“To live in the way of love requires that I pay attention to the fact that my mind, through the process of emotion, longs to be connected to others.”- Dr. Curt Thompson, Anatomy of the Soul (2010) “The point of life is connection — with God, with our own hearts, and with the people God […]
“Our ultimate security rests wholly and completely on who God is. He is why we’re okay. He is also why we can be broken and doubt and fear and cry. We think God is waiting for us to pull ourselves together, but actually He is waiting for us to come to Him and fall apart. […]
“The beauty of David and the Psalms is the permission to feel it all. David had full confidence that God could handle all his emotions, even the ones that caused him to doubt that God is good and that God still loves him. . . . [David] feels safe enough with God to wrestle it […]
“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 […]