Emotions. We all have them.

So, first of all,  please let me apologize to my readers, whomever & where ever you are, for not posting earlier this week.  Working 9 & 10 hour days almost everyday for the last few weeks is getting old.   Correction, it's already old.  I'm so done with that nonsense.  But more on that later.

I just want to share one thing with everyone before I get started housecleaning.  (hold on, I need to go get another cup of coffee...),  ok, coffee refilled.  

Emotions.  We all have them.  Yahuah (most of you call him by the name God), created us in His image.  

Nehemiah 8:10 
 And Nehemiah continued, "Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared.  This is a sacred day before our Lord.   Don't be dejected and sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!"

What did Nehemiah say?  "...for the joy of the Lord is your strength!"

When Yahuah entered the temple & saw it had  been made into a money changers pit (from hell?).   What did he do?  He became angry and threw over the tables & threw out the money changers & yelled at them!  

Emotions!

John 3:16
"For Yahuah so loved the world He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life."   

What did Yahuah do?  He LOVED us!  

Love is not just a verb, it's an emotion.  

Why am I talking about emotions?

Because this time of year people, (that's us), go through a lot of emotions.  Joy, sadness, anger, depression, fear, etc.   But we are told by the media, by *society* that the only acceptable emotion is joy.  If you are anything but happy, joyful, then there is something wrong with you, you are not normal, take a pill, see a counselor, read a book, "get over yourself".    

My personal belief is that this is WRONG!   What happens when we deny those other emotions?  We stuff them down deeper inside of us with food, drugs, alcohol, spending, and other supposedly more socially acceptable behaviours.

Now I'm not saying it's ok to be angry and go yell at or hit whomever you are angry with, or that medicine isn't helpful at the right time.    

Emotions themselves are not the problem.  It's what we do with them, because of them that becomes the problem.   

All I am saying is that we have emotions.  We need to deal with them, recognize them as real and a part of who we are.    Don't live in the negative emotions, but don't try to stuff them down, hide them away.   Face them, deal with them, fix whatever is causing them.    

Sometimes emotions are the smoke, we turn on the fan & blow away the smoke, without putting out the fire causing the smoke.    IT'S TIME TO PUT OUT THE FIRES, IT'S TIME TO BE REAL AND FIND OUT WHAT'S REALLY CAUSING OUR EMOTIONS.  

It's not the emotions that are the problem.

I'm really tired of people telling me, 'you shouldn't feel sad, afraid, fearful, etc'  or 'why do you feel like that, you have a car, a safe place to live, food & clothing, what reason do you have to feel that way?'  etc etc etc

Thank you, to some really good friends, (Lora & Gloria), who talk me through my 'moments'  and a new acquaintance, (Jim, has pointed me to some info I'm still researching that might explain why I have always felt, thought, been different than what 'normal' people experience.
 
Now, keep in mind.  This is just my opinion.  This is what I believe I have heard Yahuah saying to me, a lot, lately.   

So I guess what I'm trying to say, is let yourself FEEL, experience the emotion and ask Yahuah what He wants you to learn from it, do with it, etc.   

I will no longer stuff my emotions deeper, try to run away from them, pretend they don't exist.  I am real person, created in His image, & He had emotions.  Emotions are a *normal*, real, part of being alive.

OK, enough for now, one more cup of coffee then I get back to cleaning.   oooops, one last emotion, I HATE CLEANING HOUSE!!!  LOL.