Feeling It
Within the past year, God has really been helping me to take a genuine inventory of my emotional life. This is a topic that tends to have two polar reactions: The first is my favorite, intense interest and embracing of the deep conversation. The second makes it difficult to feel safe talking about it, and tends to be avoidance or in rare cases hostility. Even though this is the case, I want to talk a little bit about that topic here. I have always been a very self-analytical and a somewhat perfectionistic person, tending to hold myself to basically impossible standards and by proxy expecting the same from others. While I do consider myself to be very self-aware, I also have come to see that I have glaring blind spots as well. Unfortunately, I also now realize that this has made me quite judgmental in the past. The hard part is coming out of that but seeing the aftermath and the bridges that I have burned. It is a lonely place to come out of, but thanks be to God who has broug...