tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400340423678181828.post8879737497617558684..comments2023-10-04T18:01:43.464-05:00Comments on Dads Teach the Bible: Dealing with IdiotsMike Cunninghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05971102076711413290noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400340423678181828.post-78593373178972004632015-05-13T14:30:05.592-05:002015-05-13T14:30:05.592-05:00Wouldn't it be "nice" if we had an &...Wouldn't it be "nice" if we had an "Emotional Dial Control" somewhere in our being; we could "dial down" the painful emotions and "Dial Up" the happy and exciting ones?<br /><br />I don't know if my painful emotions are somehow a result of the fall, or if they are designed by God to work His plans into my life (or even all of the above). What I do know is, they are painful and I don't like them!<br /><br />In fact, I would give almost anything to make may present pain just "go away;" it is relentless, always "there," somewhere in deep in my gut. It's not physical, but yet it is. <br /><br />Many times it lays low only to erupt at crazy times, like sitting down in the aisle seat on my flight to Kansas City last week to spend Mothers' Day with our single daughter. The seat next to me was vacant, and suddenly I realized that would have been "her" seat; she should have been there. Automatically my hand went to find her's...and I wept at the pain of her permanent absence.<br /><br />I'm told the pain will get less - in time. Yet it will not go away until death is swallowed up in victory. And I believe them. How could it go away? I rejoiced in 45 years of the most wonderful love and devotion it is possible for a man to experience on this earth. How could the loss of that not hurt - bad? It was at least half or me suddenly ripped away without my permission! But I won't live another 45 years, so I still got the better end of the deal.<br /><br />In the meantime God teaches me about being sorrowful and yet rejoicing. About His faithfulness I have never really needed to rely on as I do now. About His love for me that gave more than can be humanly conceived through His suffering on the blood-stained cross. On fidelity to all His "great and precious promises." On the brevity of this life of woe, and the sure expectation of perfect, eternal life with no more pain, sorrow, tears, longings or fear. <br /><br />Clearly, my part now is to endure - no matter what the emotion...<br /><br />I just wish it didn't hurt so much now....chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04631165961382647198noreply@blogger.com