Unfortunately, many people are taught to ignore their negative emotions. As John T. Raffa wrote in Psychology for Living magazine: "They believe you should hide such feelings--deny, deny, deny--and become nothing but a robot instead of what God made us, beings with feelings."
I have always emphasized the need to be honest, to be open-faced, to walk in the light, and to love one another. Repressed people are closed people and are unable to fully love and fully live. Neither can they have any kind of emotional intimacy in close relationships.
Only as we walk in the light, that is, in honesty and openness, are we able to have true fellowship and connection with both God and others. Furthermore, only then are we able to be open channels through which God's love can flow to others, and in so doing will we be able to fully live and fully love.
Dear God
please reveal to me
any and every barrier in my life
that blocks my feeling close to you
and to others
so that I can know true intimacy with you
and the ones I love the most
--and be a vibrant channel
through which
your love to others can flow.
Thank you for hearing and answering my prayerz.
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