Chieko N. Okazaki wrote:
We need to have an open conversation with God that shares our whole hearts with him. That means we need to be honest about what we love and what we don’t, where we succeed and were we fail, what we’re feeling and what we’re thinking. One of the most human things about us is the strength and power of our feelings—and some of those feelings are very negative. We feel grief so intensely we think our hearts will break. We are consumed by rage so fiery that our whole world seems angry. We feel discouraged. We feel depressed. We aren’t always honest, always kind, always faithful. We aren’t uniformly cheerful, compassionate and courageous. And usually it’s during those very moments that we choose not to pray because we think that God doesn’t want to see that part of us, respond to such turbulent emotions, or accept us in our negative moments.
I think that the scriptures teach a far different message. ~Chieko N. Okazaki
