I'm Back!!!
I assume you are too. We've been through a great storm and back. And even if damage was minimal I'm sure we have been changed.
There is no holding back with our emotions during devastations, and it is good to have an opportunity to express it all. We feel abandoned, helpless, forgotten and what comes with this is necessary. Where did we ever think or why have we been taught it is not a good thing to have all our emotions. To be angry, sad, to have feelings that come under the category of 'negative'. The charge is necessary. Emotions are purging.
Rather, what I am seeing is the stifling of emotions whether anger or joy, sadness or happiness, which may be for the person or persons doing the stifling to keep from feeling their own pain, their own joy, their own happiness.
What ever made us think it was okay to walk around with pain inside, especially when no on is offering to listen to it, then pretend it's not there with a smile on our faces. And the church is one place this happens, when it should be the one place we can be real.
I heard this scenario and you may have also.
A family was getting ready for church, the mom and dad hurrying, began to scream and cuss at each other because they were running late, Screaming at the children and cussing all the way to church. They park the car, still screaming, they get out of the car and walk to the doors of the church and upon entering the church the greeters say, 'Good morning, how are you today?', They answer immediately with a joyful tone, 'Oh we are so blessed, thank you very much, Praise God!'
Now I'm one if you tell a story as it goes through me the grapevine here will never get it right. So if you have heard this and it is a little different, you get my point which is very clear and true, we are not real and truthful or allowed to be real or truthful.
God created us and knows us better than we know ourselves. The expression of our emotions brings healing to our souls and bodies as well. No wonder we are boiling pots of hypertension, and other related diseases when anger is kept inside. What if we did have a safe place to express our deep pain and emotions, a place of real catharsis?
This week it is both an honor and humbling to feel the call to begin a Love Machine at Starbucks on 43rd at 290W next to PetCo at 6:30pm. It is time, the experience with Love Machine has been healing for Ken and I and my desire is to share this healing. I thank Jim Spivey for hearing the Lord's call to begin a place that anyone can come and be real. A place which I see is filled with the presence of His Holy Spirit as He comes and connects us one to another, in one accord and one spirit. Well, Love Machine is a group, it is all inclusive, there is no plan, no agenda, just the leading of the Holy Spirit. It is a place where we can be real to express deep pain and deep joy and what a beautiful thing that happens as healing begins to take place.
And even if you don't have a place to go and be real, find a close friend who will allow you to be yourself to express it all, a friend who will listen more than talk and then in turn you be that person for them.
Really, come as you are, not just the way you are dressed.
I assume you are too. We've been through a great storm and back. And even if damage was minimal I'm sure we have been changed.
There is no holding back with our emotions during devastations, and it is good to have an opportunity to express it all. We feel abandoned, helpless, forgotten and what comes with this is necessary. Where did we ever think or why have we been taught it is not a good thing to have all our emotions. To be angry, sad, to have feelings that come under the category of 'negative'. The charge is necessary. Emotions are purging.
Rather, what I am seeing is the stifling of emotions whether anger or joy, sadness or happiness, which may be for the person or persons doing the stifling to keep from feeling their own pain, their own joy, their own happiness.
What ever made us think it was okay to walk around with pain inside, especially when no on is offering to listen to it, then pretend it's not there with a smile on our faces. And the church is one place this happens, when it should be the one place we can be real.
I heard this scenario and you may have also.
A family was getting ready for church, the mom and dad hurrying, began to scream and cuss at each other because they were running late, Screaming at the children and cussing all the way to church. They park the car, still screaming, they get out of the car and walk to the doors of the church and upon entering the church the greeters say, 'Good morning, how are you today?', They answer immediately with a joyful tone, 'Oh we are so blessed, thank you very much, Praise God!'
Now I'm one if you tell a story as it goes through me the grapevine here will never get it right. So if you have heard this and it is a little different, you get my point which is very clear and true, we are not real and truthful or allowed to be real or truthful.
God created us and knows us better than we know ourselves. The expression of our emotions brings healing to our souls and bodies as well. No wonder we are boiling pots of hypertension, and other related diseases when anger is kept inside. What if we did have a safe place to express our deep pain and emotions, a place of real catharsis?
This week it is both an honor and humbling to feel the call to begin a Love Machine at Starbucks on 43rd at 290W next to PetCo at 6:30pm. It is time, the experience with Love Machine has been healing for Ken and I and my desire is to share this healing. I thank Jim Spivey for hearing the Lord's call to begin a place that anyone can come and be real. A place which I see is filled with the presence of His Holy Spirit as He comes and connects us one to another, in one accord and one spirit. Well, Love Machine is a group, it is all inclusive, there is no plan, no agenda, just the leading of the Holy Spirit. It is a place where we can be real to express deep pain and deep joy and what a beautiful thing that happens as healing begins to take place.
And even if you don't have a place to go and be real, find a close friend who will allow you to be yourself to express it all, a friend who will listen more than talk and then in turn you be that person for them.
Really, come as you are, not just the way you are dressed.
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Please listen, this song perfectly expresses
what Love Machine is about.
Video & Song
Please listen, this song perfectly expresses
what Love Machine is about.
Video & Song
'I Will Carry You' Michael W. Smith
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