Feelings

Hopewriters Day 11 Feelings

It’s pouring rain today; the kind of dumping rain that spills out of gutters and makes the yard into a giant muddy wading pool. I feel like snuggling under a warm knit blanket with a bowl of gooey cheese covered french onion soup on my lap and a hunk of crusty bread to the side. Then with my belly warm and full I would hibernate for the day with a book that smells like the library. My feelings tell me that’s what I need to do right now but I can’t. Still working on that laundry and the piles of unopened mail are staring me down. Feelings like the weather come and go. They are warm and wonderful but can change within the day to cold and dreary. I am learning that they are part of my life for sure but they cannot run my life. I too often let them take the lead and give them more power than they deserve. And sometimes they can be really off and frankly based on things that are untrue. So I have learned to be wary of feelings and to hold them loosely. They will come like rainy days and soak my skin,cold and wet. But when I remember to talk to Jesus instead of just sit there and soak, He is already there bringing me an umbrella and pulling me close next to Him. He heals my heart and shows me truth. He is the maker of all and knows how things work. He created me, body, soul, spirit and has knit me together perfectly. He understands the things I don’t and holds all my unanswered questions with kindness. So let the feelings come and go, because they are just feelings and I like it here next to Jesus. He’s the one I want holding me.