UNGLUED
MAKING WISE CHOICES
IN THE MIDST OF RAW EMOTIONS
LYSA TERKEURST
What happens in between the smiling snapshots
of life isn’t all pretty.
I’m willing to admit that.
And I love my friends who are brave enough
to admit the messy stuff as well.
I dedicate these words to you as we set out
to make some imperfect progress together.
Contents
1: An Invitation to Imperfect Progress
EPILOGUE: Accepting the Invitation to Imperfect Progress
APPENDIX: Determine Your Reaction Type
1
An Invitation to Imperfect Progress
Emotions aren’t bad. But try telling that to my brain at 2:08 a.m. when I should be sleeping instead of mentally beating myself up.
Why had I become completely unglued about bathroom towels? Towels, for heaven’s sake. Towels!
The master bathroom is the favorite bathroom in our house. Although my three girls share a small bathroom upstairs, they much prefer our more spacious bathroom downstairs. As a result, our bath towels are frequently hijacked. I’ll hop out of the tub and reach for the freshly laundered towel I hung on the rack the day before only to discover it isn’t there. Ugh. So, I wind up using a hand towel. (A hand towel. Can you feel my pain?) And while using said hand towel, I am muttering under my breath, “I’m banning the girls from our bathroom.” Then, of course, I never do anything to make the situation better. And the same scene repeats itself time and time again.
I’d been dealing with the bath towel, or lack thereof, situation for quite a while before Art got involved. Up to this point, he had somehow managed to escape the woes of using a hand towel. But not this day. And his happiness did not abound upon discovering nothing but air where the towel should have been.
Since I happened to be nearby, he asked if I might please go get him a towel. I marched upstairs, convinced I’d find every towel we own strewn randomly about in my girls’ rooms. I was preparing a little scolding speech as I marched, marched, marched up the stairs. With each step I felt more and more stern. But when I went from room to room, there were no towels. None. How could this be? Completely baffled, I then went into the laundry room. Nope, no towels there either. What in the world? Meanwhile, I felt a tightening knot of tension in my neck as Art again called out for a towel.
“I’m coming, for heaven’s sake,” I snapped back as I walked to the linen closet where the beach towels are kept.
“You’ll just have to use one of these,” I said, tossing a large Barbie beach towel over the shower door.
“What?” he asked, “Isn’t this the towel the dogs sleep ...
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About Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw EmotionsDo you ever feel like your emotions are working against you? Though we may find ourselves stuffing down emotions, exploding with emotions, or reacting somewhere in between, Lysa TerKeurst assures us it’s possible to make our emotions work for us. Lysa admits that she, like most women, has had experiences where others bump into her happy and she comes emotionally unglued. But the good news is, God gave us emotions to experience life, not destroy it. With gut-honest personal examples and biblical teaching, Lysa shows us how to use our emotions for good. Unglued will equip you to: • Know with confidence how to resolve conflict in your important relationships. • Find peace in your most difficult relationships as you learn to be honest but kind when offended. • Identify what type of reactor you are and how to significantly improve your communication. • Respond with no regrets by managing your tendencies to stuff, explode, or react somewhere in between. • Gain a deep sense of calm by responding to situations out of your control without acting out of control. |
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