Emotions are a funny thing. There’s no way to live without them, and although you know they have purpose, sometimes you wish there was a simple on and off switch.
I’ve heard advice before to let myself feel – to feel everything, or in other words, go through the emotion in its fullest and get it out of your system. There’s something refreshing about this quote I found last month that gives another perspective on how we should ‘feel’ certain things, certain emotions. It’s similar to that saying to “take it easy”. Sometimes we (or maybe I should just speak for myself and say ‘I’) tend to let myself feel a little too deeply and let my emotions envelope me, affecting my mood, my attitude, my outlook, my actions, and my reactions. However you understand ‘lightly’ to be is subjective but I take it to mean…not to necessarily be numb, incapable of feeling, or even to feel less, but to know that our emotions should be rooted in the Lord, and that whichever way our emotions tend to sway throughout our days that we always have hope that it too shall pass. Emotions are like plenty of things in this world which all inevitably come to pass.
Feel lightly, friends.
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…” – Aldous Huxley, from the book Island