You Can Only Feel Joy ...

You can only feel joy to the extent that you are willing to feel pain. Many would like to feel only joy, but we are Spirit experiencing this reality in a body that has emotions. Things happen individually and collectively that cause us anguish, anger, pain, sadness, etc. If we try to stuff those emotions, we are cutting off a part of our experience. To be awakened and authentic means being willing to feel everything that comes up in this experience. God is infinite and unlimited, and that is how His experience of this reality in and through us is meant to occur. God is Love, and we come back to our recognition of Unity by being willing to fully feel and express our emotions so we can come to know ourselves as that Love. If we try to cut off any part of ourselves, we introduce a belief in separation that does not exist. Lawrence Doochin These posts are similar to the over 2500 contained on The Divine Speaks website (www.thedivinespeaks.com) where God gives YOU the one that you need to hear at that time. Lawrence is the author of three books on emotional and spiritual healing, including "Thirteen Steps To Move From Victim Consciousness To God Consciousness: Healing Traumatic Experiences Including Sexual, Physical, Emotional, And Mental Abuse."