Good morning…
In the silence of this early morning, which shade of emotion do I pull out and play with, like a pristine ball of pliable play dough?
Sensing.
Softening.
Squeezing, stretching, shaping.
God, which emotion of my multi-colored myriad needs tending to right now?
As I breathe into this sacred space, God somehow answers. An old favorite song from my childhood wells up from within. I am welcomed forward into the freedom of feeling.
“It’s alright to cry,” begins the life-giving lyric. “Crying gets the sad out of you. It’s alright to cry. It might make you feel better. It’s alright to feel things, though the feelings may be strange. Feelings are such real things, and they change and change and change. Sad and grumpy. Down in the dumpy. Snuggly. Huggly. Mean and ugly. Sloppy. Slappy. Hoppy. Happy. Change and change and change. It’s alright to know: feelings come and feelings go. And it’s alright to cry. It might make you feel better.”
Instinctively I am drawn to the shortest verse in the Bible. Jesus wept (John 11:35, NIV). I wonder, “Did it make him feel better?”
…Sue…
P.S. This cool photo from Corinne Adams brings to life our inner music.
