Brutally honest
There's few places you can be brutally honest about how you feel. This is one of them.
Right now I feel like saying "Why doesn't God just kill me now and get it over with?"
I know that's just a feeling. I recently heard someone tell the story about fact, faith and feeling - was it faith? It think the middle one was faith - walking down a wall: fact in front, faith in the middle, and feeling behind. As long as faith looked forward and watched fact everything was fine, but as soon as he looked back towards feeling, he fell off the wall.
Fact: I am UNCONDITIONALLY loved by my Father in heaven. He delights in me and all I have to do is exist for him to be pleased with me.
Feeling: Life sucks. Nothing's ever going to get better. I'm a waste of space, money, effort. There's no reason for me to be here.
It's when we get facts and feelings confused that we have problems. I don't FEEL loved, but if I believe the feeling that I'm worthless as fact, then I'm going to end up doing something stupid. I have to keep my eyes on the facts.
Right now I feel like saying "Why doesn't God just kill me now and get it over with?"
I know that's just a feeling. I recently heard someone tell the story about fact, faith and feeling - was it faith? It think the middle one was faith - walking down a wall: fact in front, faith in the middle, and feeling behind. As long as faith looked forward and watched fact everything was fine, but as soon as he looked back towards feeling, he fell off the wall.
Fact: I am UNCONDITIONALLY loved by my Father in heaven. He delights in me and all I have to do is exist for him to be pleased with me.
Feeling: Life sucks. Nothing's ever going to get better. I'm a waste of space, money, effort. There's no reason for me to be here.
It's when we get facts and feelings confused that we have problems. I don't FEEL loved, but if I believe the feeling that I'm worthless as fact, then I'm going to end up doing something stupid. I have to keep my eyes on the facts.
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