Emotions get a bad rap too much in this life. If we are criticised
for not controlling them enough, we are self-berating and condemnatory. The
weakness value in our manifest emotions always seems to get top billing when
the strength value is undeniably what we live life for.
Not everyone is a feeler, per se, but every living being can be
touched emotionally.
When we are moved from the soles of our feet, through sensory
extensions to every epithelial nerve ending, God touches us, and we tingle radiantly
all over. We are emotional. Our chins quiver involuntarily. Tears well up and
seep over the dams of our lower eye lids. We begin to look away – the inspiration
of self-protection and shame for having become vulnerable. But, in the safety
of bold vulnerability, we are encouraged to stay there – in these emotions that
have moved us.
When music moves us we are connected by the lyric or the melody
or the beat – or their combination – and such art takes us places in our mind,
heart, and soul.
It means a great deal to be moved. We should never shun the
experience.
The paradox of having been moved is that we surrender control
over ourselves for the moment just so we may experience some height or depth
unusual to our experience.
Life is poor when we are somewhat cut off to the height or depth
of emotional experience, but with maturity of faith we are graced with less and
less of those experiences that throw us about. God is weening us from the need to
crave being touched. But there will always be experiences of life that will
move us.
To be moved is the height of human experience – a pleasure far
too high to ever be contrived; but it never stops many of us from trying.
***
One thing
I have found to be true is the more I find time to reflect, the more God
touches me in my senses. Experiences of life can easily be swept over, but as
we reflect we enhance the felt experience and God can be heard to speak through
insight.
We live
to be moved. Harnessing the inspiring emotions, especially those that rock us
from the soles of our feet, is the height we love to experience, even though it
might implicate pain.
The value
of being moved emotionally cannot be understated as we seek to connect profound
truth to our feelings.
If we can
let go and trust God at our depth, our Lord can use our emotional experiences
to lift us to the heights.
© 2014 S.
J. Wickham.
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