Dear friend with all the “feels”, I bet you know what it’s like to feel sick to your stomach when you see road kill on the side of the road. Some people wouldn’t think twice about it, but you wonder if the animal felt pain. A little inconvenience might ruin your day because it feels so overwhelming. Instead of looking at it for what it is, an inconvenience, you think about how it will impact and affect others and how it could be a burden to them. Feeling like a burden is something you may experience a lot. When bad things happen to people, whether you know them or not, you empathize in a way that others find strange. Even though YOU may not be going through the hardship, it feels like you are. It’s like other human’s emotions seep into your soul. You are like an emotional sponge, absorbing all the emotions around you. You weep anytime you actually open your heart up during worship, and so sometimes you just choose not to, because once you start you may n...
