Photo by Ryan 'O' Niel on Unsplash In a world where love is an emotion (and all about romance), faith becomes an emotional rollercoaster as well. But when your faith is in your emotions instead of God, it inevitably fails. That's a fact. God is not your emotions and your emotions are not God. God is not produced by the mind, nor is he created when life strikes. Emotions do have their place. Our bodies were designed with a built-in fight-or-flight (or freeze or fawn) reaction in place--that is, physically we are geared towards survival. Not necessarily in the evolutionary sense, though. Craving safety (survival) does not necessitate a gradual positive development away from monkeyhood. When a "threat" approaches, our natural instinct is to run and hide (flight), approach it head on like a charging bull (fight), freak out about the inevitable or completely avoidable (fright), or pretend that it never happened (fawn). If a car is zippi...
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