True Feelings

What am I feeling? Emotions can be confusing. One moment we're happy, content, and hopeful, and the next we're anxious, hurt, and overwhelmed. But we don't have to live at the mercy of our emotions. In True Feelings, a mother-daughter team clears away common misconceptions and mixed messages about our feelings to offer us a biblical perspective on emotions— helping us understand how they work, why we feel what we feel, and how to develop good emotional habits. We will see that we don't have to ignore, excuse, or follow our feelings, but can instead learn to honor God with our emotions as an integral part of who he made us to be.

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings, Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others--philosophers and psychologists--have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense--rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. Fear, anger, love, guilt, jealousy, compassion--they are all essential to our values, to living happily, healthily, and well. Solomon highlights some of the dramatic ways that emotions fit into our ethics and our sense of the good life, how we can make our emotional lives more coherent with our values and be more "true to our feelings" and cultivate emotional integrity. The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, Robert Solomon shares his fascination with the emotions and illuminates our passions in an exciting new way.

My Heart Overflowing My world has opened Up like a blossom That has filled my heart, And thoughts. Overflowing, that is hard to contain, That comes through A pen in my hand To share the Love of the Lord Poems and Prayers True Feelings From the Heart By Geneva Arnette

First of all I want to say that writing this book wasn’t easy at all, but I’m thankful to life, to everyone who believed in me and mostly to God, because with him we’re everything and without him nothing would be done. I am a married woman and I have 3 children, 2 girls and one boy. I’m thankful that they’re so good to me, they’ve been very supportive of me and I can always count on them as if they were adults. They understand a lot of things. I’d also like to tell you that I’ve been through depression and it’s very hard to nd one’s true feelings without the help of God. I’ve always been fully dedicated to my family, as a mother and as a housewife, it hasn’t been easy because when I’ve been sick I haven’t always been myself, but if you have faith and love in your heart everything is possible no matter your age. I’m 40 years old and my life’s been very blessed in my life, my mariage and my family. I thank Angelica, Yajaira and Edward for being my children and my husband Elpidio, without them and God none of this would be possible. My story has been very similar to tohers, but I’ve fought agains everything that has happened to me to be able to get the rewards God has given me. I’d just like to tell you to ght. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Blessings for everyone who knows me and for everyone who will get to know me through my rst book.

How do you think God feels about you — right now? Just hold still. Take a moment for the honest truth. Let the soul-searching question seep in, and brace yourself for the answer. Don’t tell yourself the answer you know you’re supposed to say. Don’t recite lines from children’s church or your grandmother’s house that never sank beneath the surface of your heart. Tell yourself the real answer, what you truly felt as you drove to work this week, as you looked into your family’s faces at the table, as you laid down to go to sleep last night. Maybe your answer is “disappointed.” “Mad.” Even “apathetic.” And yet the unbelievable truth is better than you could ever imagine. Because what God really feels for you is love, and He’s done specific, personal things for you so you’ll know it. Like treasure left too long, they’re buried in the Bible but finally brought to light in Always Been Loved. As you read it, you’ll finally discover God’s true feelings for you — the feelings that He’s had for you since before you were born and that you can never lose. He’s ready to show you: you’ve always been loved.

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings, Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others--philosophers and psychologists--have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense--rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. Fear, anger, love, guilt, jealousy, compassion--they are all essential to our values, to living happily, healthily, and well. Solomon highlights some of the dramatic ways that emotions fit into our ethics and our sense of the good life, how we can make our emotional lives more coherent with our values and be more "true to our feelings" and cultivate emotional integrity. The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, Robert Solomon shares his fascination with the emotions and illuminates our passions in an exciting new way.

There is no place, it seems, that feelings do not run high about feelings. Western civilization is still caught between adoration of the emotions as sublime and denigration of them as merely animal. Can we trust our feelings? Should we suppress them or should we indulge them? In what part of our persons do feelings occur? Contemporary Christianity is no less vexed about emotions. The rise of the charismatic movement in the late twentieth century, with its emphasis on experiential Christianity, has led to an equally strong reaction of suspicion against talk of the emotions as significant for the Christian life. Though these questions have an everyday, practical importance, they also point to profound theological questions about the nature of the triune God and the ascription of emotions to him in the Bible. Does God himself have feelings? This stimulating volume, based on the 2011 Moore College School of Theology, offers perspectives on emotions. Topics include a cultural overview, theological anthropology, the question of divine passions, the emotional life of Jesus, the Spiritâe(tm)s work in perfecting emotions, preaching the Gospels for divine effects, and the place of the emotions in corporate worship including connections with singing and music. The contributors are Rhys Bezzant, Peter Bolt, Gerald Bray, Andrew Cameron, Keith Condie, Richard Gibson, David Höhne, Michael Jensen, David Peterson and Robert Smith.

This guide helps children meet challenges, use existing skills and develop new ones, reach out to adults and peers, and develop an inner sense of character. It stresses working both alone and with a group to learn constructive ways to express feelings. The end of each activity is designed to help teachers evaluate that activity. Contains rationale, orientation, structure, organization, and manual for each of the two workbooks. Step-by-step procedures provided for each session.