If God designed the human soul, then it’s only logical that he would know how to fix it when it is out of alignment. Yet sometimes we are so embarrassed by our emotions and so freaked out by our feelings that we avoid the one who knows our souls the best. So we try to fix ourselves on our own. But the results are usually underwhelming, because it’s surprisingly hard to feel better just because we want to. It’s difficult for our souls to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps—whatever bootstraps are—because emotions are so complicated and even subversive. The problem with discouragement is
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