We cannot heal what we will not feel. Remember, the only way back home to the top of the autonomic ladder is by climbing each rung. We might want to jump from distress or doubt to delight in God, but unless we tend to our emotions and sensations, we’ll just be pretending at praise. We cannot grow if we will not go—through the dark valley—with Jesus, walking the same well-trod path he walked before us, that thousands upon thousands of saints before us have walked as well.
