"I am not my feelings."
I stumbled upon this comment as a young man and took it to be true. Of course as the philosophy manual has it, a feeling is incorrigible knowledge. If someone says, “I feel bad” we don't say, "No you don't!"
Yet, if feelings comprise our character and decisions, we are done. Discouragement, pain, anger, even laziness or apathy are very real, and very seductive. They describe, but we dare not let them prescribe. They will lead us astray. Faith is the answer: daring to believe that right choices lead to better outcomes, regardless of feelings.
No comments:
Post a Comment