People and crisis will invariably bring out the worst of you or the best of you depending on your emotional health. What leaks out are emotions somewhere on the spectrum caused by jumping into the chasm of relational messiness. What do we do with these emotions? Is it OK for Christians to have emotions? Which ones? In John 11 Jesus enters into an emotional firestorm. He does not come out unscathed. He gets emotionally burned along with his friends. So I wonder if the gospel writer is telling us something about real life that we often miss when we are emotionally closed up inside. If Jesus experienced emotions, shouldn't we? For what purpose? Enjoying people is messy. People are messy. We are messy. Yet when the fire dies down new life emerges.
Todd
