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The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God is unavailable, but you can change that!

So often we find ourselves caught between extremes. Either we feel too much or not at all. We tend to ignore our feelings or fight them off as if they were an enemy. But all emotion—whether positive or negative—can give us a glimpse of the true nature of God. We want to control our negative emotions and dark desires. God wants us to recognize them as the cry of our soul to be made right with Him....

what I wanted or expected to feel. I respect my friend, but that night I felt a growing desire to speak to him realistically, even harshly. Didn’t he realize his wife might die? Why would I feel contempt toward a good friend as he offered me a taste of God’s goodness in his life? Looking back, I believe it is because I envied his faith. I don’t want to go through what he has suffered. Yet he has glimpsed the face of God and has seen His mercy in the midst of sorrow. His life moved toward me with
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