Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

by Jennie Allen

We are broken people living in a broken world, every last one of us. To expect flawed individuals to somehow be flawless is a me problem, not a problem with them.

God hadn’t set me adrift. God hadn’t abandoned me. God had allowed the waves to pick up and the winds to blow so that I would bury my face in Him. What God is after in your life and mine is relationship. It’s proximity. It’s intimacy. It’s peace. He wants you. He wants me. He wants us to find our relief in Him.

If I look back at my life and think of my deepest experiences with God, they aren’t on the days I felt joy. They are on the days when I couldn’t get out of my car because of fear, when I couldn’t show up at work because of tears, when I couldn’t even speak because I was so mad.

One day we’ll understand it all. We’ll see it all as He sees it. In the meantime, we get God and each other and a chance to live this one life with hearts whole, living, beating, feeling, full, connected to God and to each other. That is the life I want. That is the life He wants for you.