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Think how much of our life is full of emotional responses?
What are two topics we are encouraged not to talk about b/c of the emotional responses?
(Politics & religion)
Talking
Sports
Music
Food (what about Bob)Fay this is scrumptious, is it hand-shucked?
Relationships
Activity (I don’t really feel like it)
Decisions (Want peace, or un easy…not feeling it?)
Fight or Flight
Exercise
Emotional Intellience
Prayer is an Emotional Connection
Wesley —How is it with your soul
E. Stanley Jones on prayer.
Can’t have intimacy without shared emotional connections
What we know about the importance of emotional connections:
These words come from Focus on the Family, Bay Area Christian Church, Rick Warren, and Katharine Dicerbo
disappointment (we had hoped he would redeem Israel)
Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road??
They were startled and frightened—Peace to You
Sight-Lk 24:37
Hearing-vs 38
Tasting-vs.
41
Smelling—vs41
Touching—
Psalm 55:1
Emotional Connections:
An Emotional Connection happens when two (or more) people knowingly feel and perceive the same thing at the same time.
1)Two lovers holding hands while gazing out together at a beautiful sunset
2)A mother and a baby feeling scared together after the baby falls over into a coffee table
3)A husband and a wife discussing and forming a shared commitment to financial goals
4)Two friends laughing together over an old teacher’s funny walk
Did you notice that some of the examples involve negative feelings?
That’s right: Some emotional connections center around uncomfortable emotions.
But that’s part of the beauty because negative experiences and feelings are neutralized by a sense of support and belonging when we share them with another receptive human.
What are the components of shared experiences?
A) Empathy
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
Empathy involves putting on someone else’s feelings, even if those feelings don’t come to you automatically.
By tapping into your built-in ability to empathize, you can create an emotional connection without having to wait around for it to happen spontaneously.
B) Vulnerability: empathy requires vulnerability.
Vulnerability is uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
empathy requires vulnerability.
Vulnerability is uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
We avoid validating the feelings of people close to us because we are afraid.
We are afraid that others they will take our empathy and use it to control us.We are afraid that if we stop trying to control the flow of conversation with light-hearted jokes that we’ll get pulled down into topics we feel emotionally unprepared to handle.We are afraid that if we empathize with someone else’s struggle that we’ll be acknowledging our own vulnerability instead of hiding behind a protective cloak of superiority.
Emotional Connections heal us.
They make us feel safe.
They make us feel like we have purpose.
They make us feel like we can handle anything.
Emotional Connections heal us.
They make us feel safe.
They make us feel like we have purpose.
They make us feel like we can handle anything.
What does this have to do with prayer?
The only reason you have emotions is because you’re made in God’s image.
If God wasn’t an emotional God, you wouldn’t have any emotions.
The only reason you have emotions is because you’re made in God’s image.
If God wasn’t an emotional God, you wouldn’t have any emotions.
Your ability to feel is a gift from God. Emotions are what make you human.
It is your emotional ability that allows you to love and create and be faithful and loyal and kind and generous and all of the emotions that are attached to the good things in life.
Your emotions may not always seem like a gift, but even the negative ones have a purpose in your life.
In his book, Soul Cravings, Erwin Raphael McManus writes eloquently about intimacy and love.
"We are most alive when we find it, most devastated when we lose it, most empty when we give up on it, most inhuman when we betray it, and most passionate when we pursue it."
In his book, Soul Cravings, Erwin Raphael McManus writes eloquently about intimacy and love.
"We are most alive when we find it, most devastated when we lose it, most empty when we give up on it, most inhuman when we betray it, and most passionate when we pursue it."
Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered.
They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.
-- T.K. Coleman
Feelings are not supposed to be logical.
Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
-- David Borenstein
Emotions at the Resurrection
Prayer is sensual--
Sight-Lk 24:37
Hearing-vs 38
Tasting-vs.
41
Smelling—vs41
The women departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and RAN to tell his disciples.
Touching—
Women were frightened
Cleopas and other, disappointed {on the way to Emmaus(we had hoped he would redeem Israel)} Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road??
Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road??
They were startled and frightened—Peace to You
The women departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and RAN to tell his disciples.
Peter marvelled at what had happened.
Did our hearts not burn within us?
Why are you troubled and doubts arise in your hearts?
..while they still disbelieved for joy and were marvelling (amazed b/c of divine revelation)
Notice how Jesus responds to their emotions?
Does he shame them OR does He honor them and empathize, but invite them to a new way of responding and processing?
Peace Be With You!
You doubt—touch my hands and side.
But blessed are those who are able to believe without seeing?
Do you love me? 3x—of course…Alright, then know how and where our loving relationship will lead you.
You are not to stay in the midst of shame and guilt, my love is calling you onward and upward.
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Isaiah 22:4
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