"Most emotions are responses to perception---what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So, check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms---what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly." The Shack
It's stunning watching the false emotional reactions play out over and over and over to what people perceive is going on around them.
I feel compelled to keep beating this horse (bringing it up) as long as I see people hurting one another over their false sense of reality. And I am very aware that this isn't just about others....I need the constant reminder myself. I'm sure I still do plenty of it myself.
The man Christ Jesus and his choice to not use power makes more and more sense to me everyday as I watch humans interact with one another. It's about dying before it is ever about fighting for our "rights" at the expense of the other.
4 comments:
Kent,
Thank you for this. It is a good reminder to me. As well, lately, I can most certainly relate. I always desire to keep a spirit of humility, respect and loving of others.
Blessings,
~Amy :)
no doubt Amy
Kent, your post struck home as I'm processing on last evening, which we spent with a young national couple who are processing their emotions and the abuse they're still suffering as they are stepping away from a controlling, manipulative IC experience. People keep calling and coming over uninvited to try to pressure them into returning. The way power has been and continues to be exercised in their case is painful to hear, and knowing some of those who are doing the abusing makes me so sad, as their perception is that they're being obedient to God & Scripture, as well as doing their utmost to "care for" and rescue this couple.
Bones, when do we stop hurting one another?
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