HCLM BLOG

this morning,
this sentence came out of my mouth:
no emotion is wrong.
the more I think on that the more committed to it I get.
no emotion is wrong.

I am thinking about that famous list describing the life we have access to through Jesus. It starts with emotions: love, joy, peace. Then I remember that the one who lived and died for me came through every emotion: he scooped up little kids, he wept at death, he cried in stress, he acted in anger, he was moved by love, he spoke in frustration…

All of that comes because he was so present in each of his moments. He was with people, and felt as they did.
The more people I know, and the more I learn to be with them in life, the more emotions I feel.
This week just randomly ended up super-emotional: deaths, births, jobs, stresses, fears. But the cumulative affect of that is not draining, it makes me feel more alive.

So, what am I saying?
I’m saying we were meant to invest in people and projects and to feel everything that comes along with it. Good and Bad.
That’s where life happens.