{"id":343,"date":"2018-12-05T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrate.bettersermons.org\/?p=343"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:39:41","slug":"emotionally-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/emotionally-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotionally Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"
Emotionally Charged<\/span><\/div>\n

\".\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
“We are not just rationale people who respond emotionally once in a while. We are emotional people who respond rationally once in a while.”<\/p>\n

–Clarence Schilt, Oregon pastor<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We are more emotional than we are rationale. Some are more analytical than others, but in the end everything that happens to us impacts us on an emotional level. As I think back over my life, the\u00a0experiences I most vividly remember are those that touched my emotions. The rationale decisions I made years ago don’t stand out in my mind. That doesn’t mean they weren’t significant, but they were on a level that didn’t seem as personal.<\/p>\n

About eighteen years ago I reached a place in my pastoral work where I felt the need to be stretched. I needed to be challenged in new ways. Some would call it a mid-life crisis! After twelve turbulent, at times tearful, months of trying to figure out what to do,\u00a0Linda and I\u00a0finally decided that I would take a leave of absence and head to graduate school. Out of that emotional time\u00a0we made some rationale decisions that altered the course of\u00a0our lives. Looking back now I can say it was an exciting time.<\/p>\n

It’s\u00a0OK to be emotional. We are wired that way. Ask God to help you better understand and\u00a0celebrate the emotional aspects of your life today.<\/p>\n

Thumbnail photo by Bas van der Pluym<\/span>
\n________________________________________
\n
\nComments by Rich DuBose.\u00a0BetterSermons \u00a9 2009. All rights reserved. Use of this material is subject to<\/span>usage guidelines<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span>View main index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emotionally Charged “We are not just rationale people who respond emotionally once in a while. We are emotional people who respond rationally once in a while.” –Clarence Schilt, Oregon pastor …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}