STEWARDING EMOTIONS

While spiritual health is far more than emotional health,
spiritual health includes emotional health.

 While emotional health is more than knowing and articulating what we are feeling,
knowing and articulating what we are feeling is foundational in emotional health.

While there are many reasons (some complex and mysterious) for why we feel what we feel,
the circumstances of our lives contribute to why we feel what we feel.

While there are other entryways into repentance and faith,
stewarding emotions is an underappreciated entryway into humility and trust.

While some emotions tend to be healthy, and others tend to be unhealthy,
health is not determined by the emotion but by what caused the emotion and the intensity of the emotion.

While a believer’s emotions are not always healthy,
as an image bearer being renewed into the likeness of Jesus, their emotions can increase in health.