Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

  Words   The world wants us to believe that being true to our emotions and feelings are the best thing we can do to ourselves. It is not. It is that simple. Emotions and feelings are fleeting things. They change and complicate things, a lot. Every time we act on our emotions, we most likely will regret it a little after. I am not only talking about emotions like passion or anger. Or as they like saying, anxiety. First of all, anxiety is a disease, not a feeling much less emotion. Love is a decision. Hate is also a decision. Decision that can be based on your feelings. “I like that person, because she makes me feel loved, cared for. She pays attention to me. She listens to me; therefore I can say that I love her.” You are being a follower of utilitarianism, and that is not love. I am not saying it is wrong. I am saying that is not love. We all are at certain times and degrees utilitarian. Who does not like being treated right? Who ...

  We are moving. We are leaving the state and heading back east and north—to the land of long winters, thick blankets of white, and heavy snow. I hope I don’t run into the White Witch there, from The Chronicles of Narnia. Anyway, we are moving to Buffalo, New York. Today is the day the movers are coming to pick up our stuff. It took us about two weeks to pack everything and sell whatever we wanted to sell. We were worried if we were going to sell everything. If we were going to find a good apartment, if we were going to find the right company to send our stuff and our car. If, if, if. So many doubts about the near future. Important things had to be decided in a short time window. We didn’t know whether we should buy a new mattress or send our old one, or whether we should keep our bed or sell it. We also wondered where we would sleep during our remaining days here if we sent everything a week early. In the end, we decided to trust God...