by Amy Kim Kyremes-Parks
Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21
“As a people of faith, many times we yield testimony to siblings in the faith who we deem overly emotional. When we override the emotion of our experience and trade it for intellectual fodder and control, we miss so much of how God’s movement moves inside of us.
We need to make sure that we don’t leave the history storytelling to the scholars. We need to place ourselves – our whole selves – in the story of God’s providence and reign. The override or bypassing of our emotions is a defense mechanism that can make it very difficult to hold on to hope when things feel hopeless. Our individual and collective stories of faith repeated over and over again from our hearts can be, and are, a life raft in the flood of chaos all around.”
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(Scripture and sermon begin at 36:05)