We live in what one writer has called the ‘age of sensation.’ We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting.
Do you agree or disagree? Act into feel or feel into act?
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One of my workout partner’s son’s 17yr old friend died in a car accident over the weekend. Deeply moved by the death of a teenager, especially because it caused him (and all of us for that matter) to come to grips with our own children’s mortality, asked something along the lines of “How can you make any sense of this?” He and another friend turned and looked at Luke the Pastor.
“No words can make this seem right. But words like ‘hope’ help. Hope that God will one day make this all right.”
What would you have said?
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That the first tear that fell was a tear from heaven.
I'm with Peterson. Act into feeling.
As for the other question, I would have probably scrambled for some comforting-sounding answer. But sometimes the most comforting answer, an answer we need to become more comfortable with, is "I don't know."
I think it is feel into act. The Holy Spirit within us moves us to action.
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